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This is a log of all deletion discussion nominations made by this user using Twinkle's XfD module.

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September 2021

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  1. WTSS-TV: nominated at AfD; notified 2603:9000:E504:C100:686D:61D:3B87:AF4D (talk · contribs) 20:22, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: No station with this call sign ever made it to air; it has been a longtime redirect to WFTS-TV, the eventual station using the allocation (channel 28 in Tampa, Florida) this would-be station was to have used, but it might be for the best if this is deleted outright, not just because of the relatively-tenuous connection to WFTS, but because in recent months this has been persistently converted into an unsourced article seemingly split from WFTS-TV (and by IPs in a loophole around the usual autoconfirmed account requirement for article creation — another reason why, at least without protection, a redirect should not return). It is very rare for an unbuilt television station to meet the general notability guideline; I certainly don't see anything to suggest that WTSS-TV does. The most recent reversion to a redirect suggested either PROD or AfD if converted back to an article; a PROD would probably be inevitably contested, so here we are.

October 2021

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  1. Channel 3 Eyewitness News: nominated at RfD; Target: WFSB (notified); notified Reuben Miguel Felix (talk · contribs) 01:26, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: While WFSB is probably by far the largest station to title its newscasts as "Channel 3 Eyewitness News", this is also the branding for the newscasts on WRCB, so there is some potential ambiguity. (On top of that, KIDK also used this title in relatively recent times when it still aired local newscasts; even now, a subchannel of KIFI-TV is branded as the similar "Eyewitness News 3".)
  2. Channel five eyewitness news: nominated at RfD; Target: KPIX-TV (notified); notified Reuben Miguel Felix (talk · contribs) 01:34, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: While KPIX-TV is probably the largest station to have titled its newscasts anything like this (albeit as "Channel 5 Eyewitness News"), this could just as easily refer to KSTP-TV, which has also branded its news as "Channel 5 Eyewitness News" in the past, and even now is still "5 Eyewitness News" (whereas KPIX has not used the Eyewitness News name in any form in nearly a decade). There have been other stations on channel 5 that have used the "Eyewitness News" name in the past as well, so there's some possible ambiguity, but it's worth noting that Google searches for anything close to this term are dominated by KSTP-TV, not KPIX-TV.
  3. Channel 13 Eyewitness News: nominated at RfD; Target: WTHR (notified); notified Fairlyoddparents1234 (talk · contribs) 01:44, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: KTRK-TV has also in the past called its newscasts "Channel 13 Eyewitness News" (and even now still calls them "ABC 13 Eyewitness News"), so there is some ambiguity. Google searches for most variations of this title are dominated by KTRK, even when "ABC" (which wouldn't apply to the NBC-affiliated WTHR) isn't included.
  4. Draft:Playhouse Disney (Asia): nominated at RfD; Target: KTVT (notified); notified 2600:100C:B01F:83E0:BBF6:D95F:F49E:A569 (talk · contribs) 02:49, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: There's no connection whatsoever between any incarnation of Playhouse Disney (much less the Asia version) and a CBS station in Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas. It did start out as a redirect to the more-logical Disney Junior (Asian TV channel) (since moved to Disney Junior (Southeast Asian TV channel)), only for the creator to change the redirect to KTVT — but despite being in the draft namespace, it's never been anything but a redirect (there is no non-redirect history).
  5. Eyewitness News 5: nominated at RfD; Target: KSTP-TV (notified); notified Fairlyoddparents1234 (talk · contribs) 02:56, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: This exact branding has never been used by KSTP-TV (it's actually "5 Eyewitness News"). At least three other stations have used this exact title (KOCO-TV, WLWT, and WTVH; none of those do so currently); there is always the risk of ambiguity with other channel 5 stations that have used the Eyewitness News name as well.
  6. WKUI: nominated at AfD; notified Cameron Pahde (talk · contribs) 01:48, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: To the best of my knowledge, this is not an FCC-licensed station, and there's no coverage in reliable sources to verify its existence, much less meet the GNG. (And if the article is to be believed, "WKUI" doesn't even sign on until November 1 — for quite a few years now, we've been trying to move away from having premature articles on unlaunched stations even when there is verifiable evidence of at least a construction permit.) Unsurprisingly for this topic area, an earlier PROD nomination was contested by the creator.

November 2021

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  1. Category:Fave TV affiliates: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified GodBlessTheThings (talk · contribs) 21:14, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: Created by a sock of SPWTulsaOK1213, but even if that were not the case, I'm not sure this category needs to exist — all Fave TV affiliates are owned by CBS Television Stations, a corporate sibling to the network.

December 2021

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  1. KSIY (FM): nominated at RfD; Target: List of radio stations in California (notified); notified MMessine19 (talk · contribs) 21:42, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: This (would-be) station is not mentioned in the targeted list. (It was a construction permit that, despite filing for a license, apparently wasn't built as authorized.) It seems to be an unlikely-enough search term, and it probably wouldn't survive as an article either.
  2. KNX (FM): nominated at RM (technical); New name: KNX-FM 23:41, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

January 2022

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  1. Category:Christian Radio Stations in the insular areas of the United States: nominated at CfDS (C2A); New name: Category:Christian radio stations in the insular areas of the United States 07:53, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
    • Reason: Neither its parent category nor its subcategories capitalize the first letter of each word in "radio stations"; there's no apparent reason why this category should.

April 2022

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  1. Category:NBC Sports Radio stations: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Neutralhomer (talk · contribs) 18:50, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
    • Reason: NBC Sports Radio shut down two years ago; the network is not even mentioned in the five articles still in this category.

June 2022

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  1. KCAQ (AM): nominated at RfD; Target: KVEN (notified); notified DoubleKradiodj805 (talk · contribs) 04:36, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
    • Reason: While the station that the target article is about simulcast KCAQ for a time several years ago, it never had the KCAQ call sign itself.
  2. WPHR (AM): nominated at RfD; Target: WHEN (AM) (notified); notified Danikayser84 (talk · contribs) 04:44, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
    • Reason: This station has never had the WPHR call sign. The edit summary of the creation of this redirect admitted that it was speculatively created in the event that the call sign might eventually change (its programming was previously heard on a station called WPHR-FM), but Wikipedia is not a crystal ball, and 11 years later the station is still WHEN (and the current WPHR-FM in Florida isn't even under any common ownership or operation these days).

September 2022

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  1. KMMA (AM): nominated at RfD; Target: KMMA (FM) (notified); notified DJV11181988 (talk · contribs) 21:50, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
    • Reason: KMMA is not an AM radio station; there is no obvious indication that any AM station has used this call sign.
  2. File:WLNE logo 2013.svg: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Jrnnf749nrn (talk · contribs) 03:24, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
    • Reason: I strongly doubt that a TV station's logo is actually under any Creative Commons license. For reference, the PNG version of the same logo it replaced is asserted as non-free.
  3. UNIHD: nominated at RfD; Target: Olympic Channel (American TV channel) (notified); notified Texaswebscout (talk · contribs) 01:11, 30 September 2022 (UTC)
    • Reason: While "UNIHD" was how this network (as Universal HD) was at one time referred to in at least some television listings, other listings use that label in association with the HD feed of Univision. There is possible ambiguity, and I'm not sure the current target is the most appropriate one at this point.
  4. NBC Olympics.: nominated at RfD; Target: Olympic Channel (American TV channel) (notified) 01:30, 30 September 2022 (UTC)
    • Reason: The target page was moved to this title "because the network will shut down" — but I don't see why that would necessitate moving the article. The redirect itself does not seem useful — the more logical target for an NBC Olympics redirect is NBC Olympic broadcasts (and NBC Olympics indeed redirects there), but the period seems unlikely to be included in any searches.

October 2022

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  1. WABC News: nominated at RfD; Target: WABC-TV (notified); notified Nightscream (talk · contribs) 01:31, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
    • Reason: Potentially ambiguous; this could (and, at least in the past, has) just as easily refer to news segments on WABC (AM).
  2. Esposimi/WXRK: nominated at RfD; Target: WINS-FM (notified); notified Esposimi (talk · contribs) 11:10, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
    • Reason: This odd redirect seems like a remnant of a page move that went awry, and is unlikely to be of any actual use.
  3. CIIO-FM (defunct): nominated at AfD; notified Scorpy43 (talk · contribs) 02:59, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
    • Reason: Nearly all the sources are CRTC decisions regarding this tourist information station, and I think the one that clearly isn't is an (unlinked) forum posting — I cannot imagine that any of that is enough to meet the GNG. It would not surprise me if the reason this article is titled at a deprecated disambiguator is because CIIO-FM has been salted since 2017, after several recreations following an earlier AfD on what I'm pretty sure is this station and several similar, related stations — and there seems to be some evidence that this is indeed a recreation of the earlier article, which could easily tip this over into G4 territory.
  4. File:Willie1035.png: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Bbabybear02 (talk · contribs) 17:36, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

November 2022

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  1. WCAT-AM: nominated at RfD; Target: KTEQ-FM (notified); notified Brianhass (talk · contribs) 05:22, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
    • Reason: Ambiguous title — this redirect seems to exist because the first station to broadcast from the school that owns KTEQ-FM had the WCAT call sign (even though there was a 20-year gap between that station's demise and the start of the first incarnation of KTEQ). However, a WCAT (AM) operated in Vermont until this past week, and the Massachusetts station now known as WPVQ (AM) long had the WCAT call sign for most of its first 50 years. If I had run into this before the Vermont station shut down I might have simply boldly redirected, but it's a bit of a stickier situation now.

December 2022

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  1. WFBT (Bath, New York): nominated at AfD; notified Jmoz2989 (talk · contribs) 05:49, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
    • Reason: Tagged as unsourced since 2015, this is a station that was never actually authorized to sign on despite filing for a license application (one day before its 2009 expiration) because the application was incomplete. (The FCC actually said, "WFBT has never commenced operation.") It's very hard to imagine there being enough out there to allow this never-was station to meet the GNG; this article on a court ruling against it probably won't be enough.

January 2023

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  1. WIMBL: nominated at RfD; Target: Moody Radio (notified); notified MadeYourReadThis (talk · contribs) 04:28, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: This seems to be a typo for WMBL (FM) (which also redirects to Moody Radio and is mentioned in a table in the article), but improbable enough that it gets virtually no page views. (No US radio station has a five-letter call sign, excluding stations with a three letter base call sign with an "-FM" suffix.)

February 2023

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  1. 2023 in radio: nominated at RfD; Target: Radio broadcasting (notified); notified DBrown SPS (talk · contribs) 20:54, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: Despite the relatively high pageviews, this does not seem like a redirect that brings anyone to the content they may be expecting, which would be a list like 2022 in radio — but the only attempts at "starting" that have so far been disruptively replacing the redirect with a nearly-blank list with no actual serious attempt to add any content. (Most of this has been by IPs, who would be automatically barred by doing this if this were to revert to a redlink.)
  2. WOWY (AM): nominated at RfD; Target: WOWY (FM) (notified); notified Camthecat10 (talk · contribs) 16:48, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: Obviously WOWY is an FM, not AM, radio station. As best as I can tell, no AM station (at least in the last ~40 years) has used this call sign (only three FM stations).

March 2023

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  1. Bend Radio Group: nominated at AfD; notified DU2010OR (talk · contribs) 00:16, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: It seems hard to imagine the owner of a group of stations in a single small market could possibly meet the GNG. (Not helping matters is that much of the content is the schedules for its stations, which are against policy.) A malformed AfD nomination by an IP in 2014, saying The page is a business advertisement, was reverted without follow-up; the same IP nominated it for CSD for a similar reason two days earlier, which was declined.
  2. Cayuga Radio Group: nominated at RfD; Target: Ithaca, New York (notified); notified Futurewiki (talk · contribs) 00:34, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: This is the name of a grouping of radio stations in this city, but even though it is mentioned in the target, I'm still not convinced this is the best target. (If we still had an article on parent company Saga Communications — and we have not for years now, having been deleted for notability reasons — that would be a better target, and redirecting to only one of their stations isn't ideal either.)
  3. User talk:2603:8803:590C:CB00:0:0:0:0/63: nominated at MfD; notified 24.255.227.140 (talk · contribs) 01:31, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: I'm not even sure ranges can even have talk pages (and MediaWiki seems to treat them more as subpages of any theoretical talk page for the IP before the slash), much less one where the only message is an unsigned "d". (This probably should qualify for speedy deletion, but figuring out what criterion a user talk page can fall under seems more of a challenge than in other namespaces.)
  4. CNZ Communications: nominated at RfD; Target: KOFY-TV (notified); notified Jrnnf749nrn (talk · contribs) 03:34, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: While KOFY-TV is owned by CNZ Communications (and this is mentioned in the article), it is not the company's only station (it's not even their only San Francisco station). The group does not appear to have a clear "flagship" station, so a redirect to any of their stations might seem misleading.
  5. File:WLYK 102.7 The Pole Logo.png: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Salv007 (talk · contribs) 22:23, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: Is the outline of the woman enough to actually be above the threshold of originality? If so, we don't usually allow non-free former logos (and in any event, I see little value in retaining the logo for a three-week stunt format under any license). One possible complication is that although nominally a US-based station, WLYK has long been operated by Canadian interests as an additional station for the Canadian city of Kingston, Ontario, which may open the question of which country's TOO should be followed.

April 2023

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  1. File:WNET logo 2011.svg: (log) nominated at FfD; notified AKK-700 (talk · contribs) 23:26, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
  2. W18DQ-D: nominated at AfD; notified 64.237.239.215 (talk · contribs) 16:58, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: Various IPs have repeatedly overwritten the redirect to TV Red Puerto Rico with an article (that company used to own this station, but sold it), but the sourcing is very limited (only a RabbitEars entry that does not list any programming and says the station is off the air) — I suspect this does not meet the GNG. Since TV Red Puerto Rico no longer owns this station, a redirect there no longer seems valid — and barring some form of protection having anything at this title will only continue to lead to more unsourced/poorly-sourced IP edits.
  3. WAAA-LD: nominated at AfD; notified Alexdw (talk · contribs) 03:02, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: The only non-FCC source currently in the article is station's listing on RabbitEars.info (which shows three channels of nothing — note that the article asserts It is currently not known what programming the station broadcasts.). The only apparently-known affiliation was carriage of All News Channel that supposedly ended in 2004 (notwithstanding that ANC shut down in 2002). I can't imagine a station like this comes close to even approaching the GNG. (And that's not even getting into the potential of these obscure articles attracting less-than-accurate information… if you see any claims elsewhere that this is a Nexstar-owned CBS affiliate (which I only recently reverted out of the article), you're looking at either a mirror (not a valid source) or someone that probably got their info from Wikipedia.)

May 2023

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  1. WUCU-LD: nominated at AfD; notified Scoty6776 (talk · contribs) 19:53, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: It seems hard to imagine that a now-defunct one-year low-power television station that only carried national programming, owned by a company that owns many such stations, could come anywhere close to meeting the GNG. This was previously part of a bulk nomination of many Innovate Corp./HC2-associated TV stations' articles earlier this year, which failed largely because it was too bulky (and intermingled stations much like this one with co-owned stations that nonetheless have longer and/or more-verifiable histories); the articles nominated in it were exempted from any standard post-close waiting periods.

June 2023

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  1. File:TVNZ (1980).svg: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Jrnnf749nrn (talk · contribs) 04:28, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: I'm not entirely sure if any copyright on this image is impacted by any threshold of originality factors, but there is no way this former TVNZ logo is Creative Commons-licensed.
  2. File:TVNZ (1982).svg: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Jrnnf749nrn (talk · contribs) 04:28, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: I'm not entirely sure if any copyright on this image is impacted by any threshold of originality factors, but there is no way this former TVNZ logo is Creative Commons-licensed.
  3. File:TVNZ (1987).svg: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Jrnnf749nrn (talk · contribs) 04:29, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: I'm not entirely sure if any copyright on this image is impacted by any threshold of originality factors, but there is no way this former TVNZ logo is Creative Commons-licensed.
  4. File:TVNZ (1994).svg: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Jrnnf749nrn (talk · contribs) 04:32, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: I'm not entirely sure if any copyright on this image is impacted by any threshold of originality factors (this one looks simple enough that {{PD-ineligible-USonly}} might apply even if there is a copyright in New Zealand), but there is no way this former TVNZ logo is Creative Commons-licensed.
  5. WFEF-LD: nominated at AfD; notified K-Johnson 127 (talk · contribs) 03:32, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: Another DTV America/HC2/Innovate Corp. LPTV with no real notability. Persistent unsourced claims by an IP that this is somehow a Univision-owned Spanish independent have led me to conclude that any continued retention of this article would do little good. This was anotehr article that was part of a bulk nomination of many Innovate Corp./HC2-associated TV stations' articles earlier this year, which failed largely because it was too bulky (and intermingled stations much like this one with co-owned stations that nonetheless have longer and/or more-verifiable histories); the articles nominated in it were exempted from any standard post-close waiting periods.

July 2023

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  1. File:WRDW.JPG: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Rockafeller (talk · contribs) 01:54, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
  2. Basin Radio Network: nominated at AfD; notified Włazysławowa (talk · contribs) 03:27, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
  3. The X KXRX: nominated at AfD; notified KXRXtreme (talk · contribs) 01:17, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: Tagged for notability since 2010, only a month after its creation (by the since-blocked KXRXtreme (talk · contribs)); tagged as an advertisement since 2012 (not exactly surprising given the creator). Even when we were over-presuming notability for radio stations (relying more on an essay than on GNG), that was never extended to Internet radio stations such as this one. The sources here are a blog, relate to the "real" KXRX it was named for (supporting material that really belongs at KJAQ), the websites for shows carried on the stream, and a YouTube video (that is not about the station). I doubt this meets GNG, or NWEB to the extent it falls under that.

August 2023

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  1. KHIZ-LD: nominated at AfD; notified Tae04gu (talk · contribs) 02:24, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: After some thought, despite this being a station in Los Angeles, one of the biggest television markets in the US, I cannot see how this low-power station — a former TBN relay turned into another DTV America/HC2/Innovate operation — actually meets the GNG. It appears to have only ever really been a repeater of other networks or stations, with neither the adequate sourcing nor any sort of local content or coverage that would get it anywhere near actual notability; the article also tends to attract unsourced edits of dubious quality, another reason why our old overpresumption of "notability" (based on an essay, which seemed to have these all-diginet stations slip through the cracks pre-2021, rather than GNG) was a bit of an error in hindsight. (This is another station that was part of the failed bulk nomination of HC2/Innovate station articles that intermingled stations like this one with facilities that have slightly more substantial histories; the history here isn't quite as threadbare as some of the newer DTV America stations that went from application to license surrender in about a decade, but it isn't much better.)
  2. W35DW-D: nominated at AfD; notified Scoty6776 (talk · contribs) 04:47, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: Another DTV America/HC2/Innovate LPTV with no significant coverage anywhere, and not much to speak of in general (despite the attempt to represent the 2011 CP grant date as its "sign on", it was only licensed in 2021). (This is another station that was part of the failed bulk nomination of HC2/Innovate station articles that intermingled stations like this one with facilities that may have, if not more notability, at least more substantial histories.)
  3. File:Whcq logo file.jpg: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Whcq (talk · contribs) 06:22, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: Unused; no likely use on Wikipedia as the most logical article to put this on, WHCQ-LD, was deleted at AfD.
  4. W21DA-D: nominated at AfD; notified Dark Shadow X (talk · contribs) 05:00, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: Another short-lived, now-defunct HC2/Innovate LPTV with no local content, almost no operational history (the periods of silence seemed to eat up most of the time it was licensed), and undoubtedly no significant coverage (or any, really) to satisfy the GNG. (Surprisingly, this article was not part of that failed bulk AfD, which included numerous stations much like this one, from earlier this year.)
  5. WDID-LD: nominated at AfD; notified Scoty6776 (talk · contribs) 06:31, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: Another HC2/Innovate LPTV with no significant coverage to meet the GNG. Note that the apparent short history of the station is actually a bit misleading; it was actually first granted as the digital companion channel for an analog WDID-LP… but an article we had on that was deleted at AfD in 2020 for a similar lack of notability and coverage (and all indications are the history of only carrying national services, with no local programming, has continued). (Which thus makes this the third nomination for this station, as it was part of the failed bulk nomination of many HC2/Innovate station articles earlier this year; soft deletion is completely off the table here.)

September 2023

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  1. File:WLNY New York 55 2023.svg: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Jrnnf749nrn (talk · contribs) 04:40, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: Not found at the given source, as far as I can tell. I'm not sure how something, particularly a logo, can be said to be both CC-licensed and "This copyright was belonging to everyone." (Granted, this would almost certainly be a {{PD-textlogo}} well below the threshold of originality anyway, but I've also yet to see any solid evidence that WLNY-TV has actively switched to this logo.)
  2. WDYH-LD: nominated at AfD; notified Scoty6776 (talk · contribs) 20:14, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
  3. WDRF-LD: nominated at AfD; notified Scoty6776 (talk · contribs) 23:31, 17 September 2023 (UTC)

October 2023

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  1. Radio Fargo-Moorhead, Inc.: nominated at AfD; notified Wyoevergreen (talk · contribs) 06:04, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: It seems unlikely that a company that owns radio stations in only one market — Fargo–Moorhead, of course) — could possibly attain the significant coverage needed to meet the GNG. (Not helping matters is that the second incarnation has to compete with a cluster that actually calls itself "Midwest Radio Fargo-Moorhead", which might be why it instead does business as "Radio FM Media" — and that other cluster owns all but one of the stations that were part of the first incarnation of the company [the one exception was promptly swapped back to the second version, long story short].) This has been tagged for needing additional sources since November 2012; alas, they seem unlikely to emerge.
  2. Reier Broadcasting Company: nominated at AfD; notified Wyevergreen (talk · contribs) 06:30, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: A company that only owned radio stations in one market — Bozeman, Montana — seems unlikely to have much chance of getting the significant coverage to meet the GNG. Some details about the end of the company that are here but not in the stations' articles probably should be integrated into them, which may require a nominal merge and/or redirect with, say, flagship property KBOZ (AM) as an alternative to deletion. A 2021 PROD was contested because of finding some more coverage onlien [sic], but a trade report on the sale and revival of the company's stations probably isn't enough.
  3. Lanser Broadcasting: nominated at AfD; notified 24.11.37.205 (talk · contribs) 01:21, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
  4. The whale fm: nominated at RfD; Target: List of radio stations in New York (state) (notified); notified Onondagan opossum (talk · contribs) 22:43, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: There's almost nothing on this list that would refer to any "The whale fm". Whale (disambiguation)#See also does include a link to WAAL, which does go by "The Whale" and is on this list (as it broadcasts from Binghamton, New York), but it is not the only FM radio station to use that brand name as there is also a "102.9 the Whale" in Hartford, Connecticut (WDRC-FM), and these lists do not generally include brand names anyway.
  5. Leo Cage: nominated at RfD; Target: KKOB-FM (notified); notified Onondagan opossum (talk · contribs) 23:12, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: As best I can tell, this was created in 2007 ahead of the addition of a mention in the article (then titled KBZU as it was the call sign at the time) — that was reverted after 15 minutes. Without that, I can't really see much of a use for this redirect that would be anything more than a surprise.
  6. Category:Elite Radio Group: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Mass media in Ark-La-Tex; notified Futurewiki (talk · contribs) 05:56, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: A two-station radio group in which both stations are in the same market —and in which the company has no article — seems like a bit of a stretch to warrant a separate category.

November 2023

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  1. KCTB-LP: nominated at AfD; notified Neutralhomer (talk · contribs) 08:03, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
  2. K21OC-D: nominated at AfD; notified Mbrstooge (talk · contribs) 01:46, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: Another HC2/Innovate station with little notability to speak of, and seemingly no known programming that isn't carriage of national (or international, in the case of Multimedios Televisión) services. It's been tagged for notability issues since 2014, and while it technically survived an AfD earlier this year, said AfD was the failed bulk nomination of 140 HC2/Innovate stations. I can't see any indication that this comes anywhere near meeting the GNG.
  3. WZHL: nominated at AfD; notified Smmoney (talk · contribs) 06:12, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: The rather razor-thin operational history of this radio station (and it hadn't "ceased broadcasting" by 2006 — that was when it was granted its construction permit; it was not licensed until 2011) leads me to believe that it probably wasn't around long enough to get anywhere near the significant coverage to meet the GNG. (The article does not even contain any information on what WZHL might have aired! Indeed, from 2009 to 2015 the edits were mostly maintenance and/or bots, with the transmitter coordinates being the most substantial addition.) A PROD was contested in 2019 at a time when this topic area hadn't yet completely moved away from the looser standards centered around the NMEDIA essay, which closes the books on any potential soft deletion.

December 2023

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  1. WROB-LD: nominated at AfD; notified Shortbri (talk · contribs) 22:49, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: This is part of a trio of low-power television stations in Kansas that only carries national services and no real local content, along with KMJC-LD (already deleted at AfD) and KCKS-LD (currently also up for deletion). An overarching article for these identically programmed stations, TV25.tv, was redirected to KCKS-LD in a 2016 AfD. Even in the days of lax notability standards and even-laxer enforcement of them, I questioned in the TV25.tv AfD whether we really needed four articles related to that network of all-diginet LPTVs. Seven years later, we have reached the point where the correct number was/is/should be zero, and it has become more accepted that this simply isn't the type of station that gets the requisite significant coverage to meet the GNG — FCC records, directories, and network announcements of their new affiliate just won't do.
  2. W16CW-D: nominated at AfD; notified RADIOTVPR (talk · contribs) 22:06, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
  3. W22FA-D: nominated at AfD; notified 64.237.238.215 (talk · contribs) 22:27, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
  4. W34ED-D: nominated at AfD; notified RADIOTVPR (talk · contribs) 22:33, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: Another TV Red de Puerto Rico LPTV with no notability, or significant coverage to lead to same (and this one is defunct, too — it wasn't around for long). I didn't include this in my concurrent bulk nomination of co-owned stations because of an apparent former MyNetworkTV affiliation (since that is not a 24/7 service, that implies they had to do something else for the other 158 hours each week…), but it's also been tagged as completely unsourced since 2019.

January 2024

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  1. WPKX: nominated at RfD; Target: WUCS (notified) 02:43, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Is there any particular reason why WPKX has continued to redirect to WUCS all this time, when the call sign has long since been reassigned to WPKX (AM)? Usually in this topic area, the primary topic with regard to a call sign title is the current station with the call sign, not a redirect to another station. (There is also a WPKX (disambiguation), for what it's worth.)

February 2024

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  1. WGBH in Boston: nominated at RfD; Target: WGBH-TV (notified); notified DadaNeem (talk · contribs) 23:47, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: The title is a bit ambiguous, as WGBH (FM) is a Boston radio station, and this could also refer to the WGBH Educational Foundation (the parent entity for both stations). This should point either to the foundation's article or to the WGBH disambiguation page.
  2. WGTM (defunct): nominated at RfD; Target: WGTM (Wilson, North Carolina) (notified); notified StraussInTheHouse (talk · contribs) 00:33, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
  3. WGTM (AM): nominated at RfD; Target: WGTM (Spindale, North Carolina) (notified); notified StraussInTheHouse (talk · contribs) 00:45, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: In this topic area, the "(AM)" silent disambiguator (and equivalents for other broadcast services) is used for a primary-ish topic (when there is another or no primary topic. Currently-operating stations are nearly always assumed to be primary or at least primary-ish; defunct stations in the same service get other disambiguators as warranted. Both the Spindale station and WGTM (Wilson, North Carolina) were AM stations, and are both defunct, so both now have geographic disambiguators — and "WGTM (AM)" is, at least until another AM takes the call sign, now incomplete disambiguation. The best course of action may be to retarget to WGTM as an {{R from incomplete disambiguation}}.
  4. Quorom Broadcasting: nominated at RfD; Target: Mission Broadcasting (notified); notified DucNguyen0131 (talk · contribs) 23:30, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: There has never been a company by this name. There was a Quorum Broadcasting (with a second "u", not "o") that merged into (what is now) Nexstar Media Group, but not sure this is a plausible misspelling to merit a retarget (Quorum, under any spelling, is not mentioned in the article for Mission Broadcasting).

March 2024

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  1. AMG Heritage Award winners: nominated at AfD; notified Canyouhearmenow (talk · contribs) 21:27, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
  2. KOWW-LP: nominated at AfD; notified DrChuck68 (talk · contribs) 19:34, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: We no longer source radio station articles solely to databases and FCC records, since you can't meet the GNG that way — we need significant coverage. This was deleted via PROD two years ago for more-or-less that reason; it was recreated a few months later, and I had to procedural contest a new PROD on this version of the article. That said, our current standards are strict enough that I figured I'd just bring it to AfD myself.

April 2024

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  1. File:WPBZ.png: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Unknown User1234 (talk · contribs) 00:19, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
  2. Charter Vocational High School: nominated at AfD; notified JosephLopez (talk · contribs) 19:45, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
  3. WCSD-LP: nominated at AfD; notified Mlaffs (talk · contribs) 19:48, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Not many articles have been attempted to be prodded three times; in that sense alone, this AfD is long overdue. The article itself is a remnant of the looser standards in this topic area in the 2000s, but according to the talk page there was a failed prod that was followed by an A7 speedy deletion in 2007. It was recreated in 2009; a 2010 prod tagging was contested because of the prior article. (The contesting rationale notes that at the time, licensed radio stations are generally held to be notable, but with the caveat that consensus can change. In this topic area, that happened with this 2021 RfC; we now require significant coverage and cannot source solely to FCC records and other databases.) I just had to procedurally contest a third prod because of the prior prods. I had been considering a redirect to the list of radio stations in Pennsylvania as an alternative to deletion, and I still think that is the best course of action (I do not support retaining the article as it is), but the triple-prod means this is as much a procedural nomination as anything else.

May 2024

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  1. The Weekend (Canadian band): nominated at AfD; notified VPHeatwave (talk · contribs) 22:16, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: This article was evidently intended to be nominated by Originalcola (talk · contribs), but they accidentially nominated the talk page instead. Their original rationale follows:
      Clearly lacking any significant coverage and being non-notable, failing to meet any notability criteria. No reliable sources exist and band is not mentioned except for trivial mentions.
      Note that Originalcola previously attempted to PROD this with the same rationale; this was declined by an IP. Also note that this is not the much-more-well-known singer the Weeknd, who is also from Canada. The third and final note is that my involvement is entirely procedural and I offer no opinion or further comment at this time.
  2. Air Dravida: nominated at AfD; notified Ardfern (talk · contribs) 16:11, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Wikilover3509 (talk · contribs) attempted to start a second nomination for this article, but wound up adding it on to the the first nomination. Their rationale follows:
      Fails to meet WP:GNG. Even the website of the promoter Zircon International which is included as an external link draws a blank.
      This article did survive that prior AfD from 2010 (and a contested PROD before that), but both of the "keeps" from then warned that the article needed to be significantly improved to avoid renomination. It has since been tagged as a potential WP:CORP failure—which might be the more relevant guideline here—since 2019. All that being said, my involvement is mainly procedural and I have no real opinion or further comment at this time.
  3. Kyogaku shiken: nominated at AfD; notified Phalinith (talk · contribs) 19:24, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Raoul mishima (talk · contribs) attempted to nominate this article for deletion, but managed to {{subst:afd2}} directly onto the log page instead of creating a subpage and transcluding it (and did not tag the article either). Their rationale follows:
      I'm not sure I understand this article, but I'm sure it is not encyclopedic et does not belong here.
      This is purely a procedural nomination to clean up a malformatted attempt; I offer no opinion or comment of my own.

June 2024

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  1. File:Always remember us single.jpg: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Fma12 (talk · contribs) 10:49, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Originally nominated by Sricsi (talk · contribs) in an AfD nomination, despite this being a file and not an article. Their rationale follows:
      Fan-made album cover, serves no purpose
      This is largely procedural on my part; I offer no opinion or further comment.
  2. Zugara: nominated at AfD; notified MHSzymczyk (talk · contribs) 11:03, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Some days ago, Wikilover3509 (talk · contribs) tried to nominate this article for deletion, but ended up editing a previous nomination for a previous article at this title. Their rationale follows:
      Does not meet WP:GNG or WP:NORG. The sources are almost entirely PR-based or non-independent. No actual in-depth coverage in reliable secondary sources, just press releases and blog posts.
      This is mostly procedural on my part; I offer no opinion or further comment beyond noting that this has been tagged as, among other things, a possible WP:CORP failure since 2012.
  3. Radio Dubuque: nominated at AfD; notified Jesster79 (talk · contribs) 00:29, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: It seems unlikely that a company that owns radio stations in only one market — Dubuque, Iowa, of course — could possibly attain the significant coverage needed to meet the GNG, much less NCORP.

July 2024

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  1. KBCT-FM: nominated at RfD; Target: Infinity Sports Network (notified); notified MadeYourReadThis (talk · contribs) 04:27, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: This was once a redirect to KWBT (FM), which used to use the KBCT call sign, but that article was redirected due to lack of notability. There is no mention of this at Infinity Sports Network, which became the target to avoid a double redirect, or at KWBT (FM)'s current target of List of radio stations in Texas. The KBCT call sign has since been reassigned to a new FM station in Missouri, but there's no notability there either (I just reverted an attempt to create a stub on it that ultimately did not overwrite this redirect). At this point I can't really see any further reason to retain this redirect in any capacity.

September 2024

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  1. Category:NewsNet affiliates: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Mvcg66b3r (talk · contribs) 18:58, 12 September 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: OWaunTon (talk · contribs) attempted to nominate this category for deletion at AfD, which is not the right venue. Their rationale is as follows:

      The network NewsNet ceased operations last month and is no longer affiliated with any stations now.
      — User:OWaunTon 17:18, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

      This is largely precedural and I offer little opinion or further comment; I do note that while it has been standard in this topic area for affiliate categories for defunct networks to eventually be deleted, a previous deletion nomination (by the category's creator, no less) did fail last month.

October 2024

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  1. Draft:Hurricane Kristy(2024): nominated at MfD; notified Christopher395 (talk · contribs) 03:03, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

November 2024

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  1. Draft:Heltah Skeltah (album): nominated at MfD; notified Focus.enterprise (talk · contribs) 16:36, 1 November 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: This draft was nominated at AfD by Drm310 (talk · contribs), even though drafts are not discussed there. Their rationale follows:

      Unreleased album, doesn't meet WP:NALBUM. Sources are unreliable per WP:GENIUS and WP:RSPYT (YouTube link is broken anyway). Already covered in Helter Skelter (The D.O.C. album).
      — User:Drm310 16:25, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

      While this would be a valid-enough AfD rationale for an article, I must concede these are not necessarily reasons to delete a draft. Nonetheless, that an AfD was started means that procedurally this must come here. I do note that there was a PROD-deleted article in 2011 at Heltah Skeltah (album); if about the same album, the existence of this draft could be at least a de facto contesting of that long-ago deletion. Beyond all that, I offer no opinion or further comment.
  2. File:WWKX logo.png: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Armbrust (talk · contribs) 17:34, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
  3. England Lionhearts: nominated at RfD; Target: England national rugby league team (notified); notified Sam Vimes (talk · contribs) 21:27, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Mn1548 (talk · contribs) nominated this redirect at AfD, but in 18 years of existence it has always been a redirect. Their rationale follows:

      Can't find sufficient references to make this a page, but it is obvious that this is not the England national team. Either a more appropriate redirect is needed or the page has to be deleted as the current redirect is very misleading.
      — User:Mn1548 18:50, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

      The only other comment at the AfD simply expressed that this should have come to RfD. I have no opinion or comment on the merits of any potential article, but it is clear that the current redirect is of little use: the section it currently redirects to, and in fact any mention of "England Lionhearts" at the target, was removed in November 2015.
  4. Draft:2025 Gulfport mayoral election: nominated at MfD; notified Jimbo218 (talk · contribs) 00:37, 17 November 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Jimbo218 (talk · contribs), the creator of this draft, is requesting its deletion… but did so at AfD, never the correct venue for draft deletion. Their rationale follows:

      There's no point of keeping this draft any further, especially when I'm creating a new one instead.
      — User:Jimbo218 17:20, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

      The other comment at the AfD points out that the correct way to go about this was to have tagged this for G7. But since this came to AfD instead, a procedural MfD it is, at least for now. I'll also point out that this was declined and then rejected in June for being too soon, and that it had been draftified after a previous legitimate AfD. I have no opinion or further comment, beyond the usual tidbit that many reasons for mainspace AfDs are not reasons for draft MfDs.
  5. WJED-LP: nominated at AfD; notified RADIOTVPR (talk · contribs) 21:57, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: This was recently proposed for deletion with the rationale No secondary sources, fails WP:GNG. However, there was a previous contested PROD in 2017 — by the same editor — with the rationale No indication of meeting WP:BASIC. Created by blocked spam account. That means we have to come here. All I have to add to either rationale is that this is nominally a remnant of the looser standards in this topic area in 2016, which were more "lenient" than the sitewide standards that should have applied at the time and only have since 2021. LPFM stations, and in fact virtually any station started within the last decade, are usually GNG failures. While this theoretically can be redirected to the List of radio stations in U.S. territories#Puerto Rico, I don't think this should be an alternative to deletion in this case — Puerto Rican stations seem more prone to redirects being overwritten by IPs, so I see little value in retaining the article history.
  6. MeTV Plus: nominated at RfD; Target: MeTV (notified); notified Msw1002 (talk · contribs) 19:59, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: OWaunTon (talk · contribs) blanked this redirect and then sent it to AfD, which is not the correct way to delete redirects. Their rationale follows:

      An alternate redirect was created a while ago MeTV+ and I blanked the page and is now unneeded.
      — User:OWaunTon 17:49, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

      Both subsequent comments pointed out that AfD is not the right venue for deleting redirects, but of particular note is the comment by Lord Bolingbroke (talk · contribs):

      Speedy keep. Wrong venue, and this redirect is a perfectly plausible search term – it's even used on MeTV's official website. No way this would be deleted even if taken to RfD.
      — User:Lord Bolingbroke 19:42, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

      Alas, my interpretation of WP:PROCEDURAL is that this has to come to RfD. This is entirely a procedural nomination, and indeed I am if anything a keep for the reasons Lord Bolingbroke gave.

December 2024

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  1. File:KNSB IowaPublicRadio logo.png: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Rudy2alan (talk · contribs) 23:05, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Is this actually non-free? (If so, it would have to be removed and deleted as we generally don't allow decorative non-free former logos.) It appears to be the same basic logo as File:WOI IowaPublicRadio logo.png, which is on Commons and is asserted to be below the threshold of originality (or else it wouldn't be on Commons at all!).
  2. File:WKVAWiki.png: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Tbone903 (talk · contribs) 08:17, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: I suspect this logo for radio station WKVA is not a CC-licensed "own work", despite what is claimed by the uploader.
  3. WGHC (defunct): nominated at RfD; Target: WGHC (1400 AM) (notified); notified StraussInTheHouse (talk · contribs) 06:29, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
  4. WNKJ (FM): nominated at RM; New name: WNKJ 07:29, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: The disambiguator was only added — and the WNKJ disambiguation page created — because of the prior existence of a WNKJ-TV article that has since been deleted at AfD due to the lack of notability for unbuilt stations. For all intents and purposes, the radio station is the primary — and only — topic.
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