Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CIRS (AM)

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was redirect‎ to Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge. (non-admin closure) Natg 19 (talk) 01:58, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Defunct tourist information radio station about which virtually nothing of substance can be written beyond "it existed". To be fair, this was a legitimate article subject at the time it was first created (by me, full disclosure) in 2008, but due to various changes in Wikipedia's notability standards for media outlets, it no longer meets the standards that apply in 2024: in 2008, a radio station was considered "inherently" notable so long as it was possible to verify that it existed, but in 2024 the test depends much more squarely on the radio station's ability to pass WP:GNG on its sourceability, which this one just doesn't.
Further, tourist information radio stations are specifically deprecated by WP:BCAST as unlikely to be notable at all in most cases, but this one can't really offer a compelling reason why it should be considered a special case of greater notability than the norm for a not-generally-notable class of topic.
By contemporary standards, all this really needs is a sentence or two in Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge -- which, in fact, it already has -- rather than its own full standalone article as an independent topic. Bearcat (talk) 21:28, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Radio and Canada. Bearcat (talk) 21:28, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Travel and tourism and Transportation. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 00:08, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Redirect to Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge and addition of "a sentence or two" per nom. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 00:16, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge: given the existing mention, this seems like a valid enough alternative to deletion here. I'm surprised this article has lasted as long as it has; we weeded out most articles on (particularly Canadian) tourist information stations in 2016, five years before the RfC that confirmed that GNG, not NMEDIA, was the notability barometer for broadcast stations (but again, even the old NMEDIA did not presume notability for tourist/travelers' information stations). WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 00:19, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Most likely, what got this overlooked is that it wasn't in Category:Tourist information radio stations in Canada at all — it had been early on, but then got removed from that in 2012 on the basis of its defunctness and never got readded afterward, meaning that by the time the hard cleanup on tourist information stations happened in 2016 it already wasn't in that category and thus wasn't noticed. Bearcat (talk) 20:09, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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