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This is a collection of discussions on the deletion of articles related to Radio. It is one of many deletion lists coordinated by WikiProject Deletion sorting. Anyone can help maintain the list on this page.

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Further information

For further information see Wikipedia's deletion policy and WP:AfD for general information about Articles for Deletion, including a list of article deletions sorted by day of nomination.

Archived discussions (starting from September 2007) may be found at:

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Aaron Calafato (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Draftify as this article still has multiple issues and it has been drafitified 2 times after the creator moved it to main space due to similar issues. Laura240406 (talk) 04:16, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Actors and filmmakers, Radio, Theatre, and Ohio. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 06:06, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per WP:PROMO. Also appears to be COI. See the list of contributions by the article's originator. -- Ssilvers (talk) 16:04, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep – Aaron Calafato’s solo show For Profit laid the foundation for a powerful career in storytelling. That early work—which received coverage from The Chronicle of Higher Education and other independent outlets—not only brought attention to student debt but also elevated his voice as a storyteller. It led to the award-winning podcast 7 Minute Stories and The Lonely Office, Glassdoor’s flagship podcast. His storytelling has only grown in reach, credibility, and cultural relevance—this page reflects a legitimate, verifiable career. Dekayf (talk) 16:34, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Paula Kruger (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Fails WP:JOURNALIST. Pizza on Pineapple ^{(Let's eat🍕)} 05:59, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People, Journalism, and News media. Pizza on Pineapple ^{(Let's eat🍕)} 05:59, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Women, Radio, Television, Internet, and Australia. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 06:03, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Hi there - I'm curious to know on what grounds you think this page is worthy of deletion - this is someone who has decades of relevant experience ARealWorm (talk) 06:34, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi - I'm curious to know why you don't think this person is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia- they have decades worth of relevant experience and engagement in the Australian industry and are now head of the Media Diversity Australia ARealWorm (talk) 06:33, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

not meeting notability due to a lack of independent sourcing Oaktree b (talk) 14:25, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete: Source 5 is the only independent sourcing about this person. I don't find any other articles that could be used for sourcing. Oaktree b (talk) 14:25, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak delete. I think it's close. I agree that source 5 is the best source, and it's an article largely focused on the subject that was published in one of Australia's newspapers of record. But source 4 is also independent, significant coverage in a very reputable newspaper. I think you could easily make the case that those two sources are sufficient to meet WP:GNG. But both are very similar routine staffing announcements (one says she is joining ABC Radio Canberra, the other says she is now leaving), and feature a very high volume of quotes. I could be persuaded otherwise, but I don't think I really see the necessary depth in those two sources to demonstrate notability. MCE89 (talk) 15:13, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

3ZE (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Radio station that fails WP:GNG. I was only able to find one word mentions of it. WhoIsCentreLeft (talk) 12:05, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Radio-related deletion discussions. WhoIsCentreLeft (talk) 12:05, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New Zealand-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 16:49, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep A cursory search of PapersPast turns up two useful pieces of significant coverage: https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19781129.2.23?end_date=31-12-1989&items_per_page=10&query=3ZE&snippet=true&start_date=01-01-1977&type=ARTICLE%2CILLUSTRATION , https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19791203.2.14?end_date=31-12-1989&items_per_page=10&query=3ZE&snippet=true&sort_by=byDA&start_date=01-01-1977&type=ARTICLE%2CILLUSTRATION , and there are a few more in NewsBank. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 03:59, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  This is not significant coverage. The newspapers you provided are just one sentence mentions of this station, they cant be used as sources. WhoIsCentreLeft (talk) 07:44, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  @WhoIsCentreLeft, they are articles that would be the foundational underpinning of some pretty important text. Probably would and should look like this:

  Our coverage of NZ radio, quite plainly, sucks, and sometimes it feels like the newspaper availability isn't all there to salvage it. But there is just enough here to pass the GNG. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 17:02, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep As the nominator does not appear to know about PapersPast,BEFORE would not have been possible in a meaningful manner. Schwede66 10:27, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete I would not classify the paperspast sources as significant coverage — they are primary sources and notability requires secondary sources. Traumnovelle (talk) 21:16, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Need more discussion on the PapersPast sources, and if there any others
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 11:57, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. Sufficient coverage has now been demonstrated. Cortador (talk) 14:49, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

KUBE (Oregon) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Does not meet GNG and entirely relies on a single primary source. Another article of the same defunct radio station exist WMIC (1590 AM), WOSL (Florida). I think they should be deleted or merged as a list of defunct radio stations in America. Uncle Bash007 (talk) 14:42, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Radio-related deletion discussions. Uncle Bash007 (talk) 14:42, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Oregon-related deletion discussions. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 15:22, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment A better merge source might be the media section of Pendleton, Oregon and/or the "Defunct" section of List of radio stations in Oregon. A list of defunct stations is likely a random collection of information. Note that having a single source is not in itself a deletion criterion. I've added a bit but am not claiming the article now passes WP:GNG. This isn't an official guideline but WP:NMEDIA might be instructive. Note to all at AfD: Could we pretty please link to the guidelines we are referencing, such as "GNG", in the nomination? Thanks! Valfontis (talk) 17:58, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to state list The main problem is that PoppysButterflies is putting pages into mainspace too early across the board. Unfortunately, while Newspapers.com just added the Pendleton paper, it is right now missing from 1947 to 1964. These should be list redirects until more sourcing can be built, but the half-baked two-sentence stub will not cut it. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 02:02, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's 5 sentences, haha. Anyway, it looks like oregonnews.uoregon.edu (free!) is also missing those years of the East Oregonian but it might have other papers that newspapers.com doesn't have. Again, lacking sources is not a deletion criterion. And WP:BEFORE is a good guideline, especially section D. I'm not going to go to a whole lot more effort to flesh this article out but I will note that one of the problems with media sources are they often aren't covered in other media sources. Valfontis (talk) 05:08, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Chippla ✍️ - Best Regards 15:05, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Weak draftify: most of the creator's other half-baked recent creations of this type, also solely sourced to that one dissertation, have been shipped to draftspace/AfC; this one at least has had more of a rescue attempt by others, even if it isn't enough for now. I'm thus reluctant to outright call for deletion at this time (but nor do I completely oppose it, as more minimally-sourced permastubs in this topic area is what Wikipedia does not need — we have too many lingering remnants of long-since-rejected looser inclusion standards as it is). I do outright oppose redirecting to the list of radio stations in Oregon#Defunct at this time; it is not currently listed there and thus would be a surprise. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 19:29, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• BluRadio (via WP:PROD on 22 March 2025)