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The result was delete. -- RoySmith (talk) 01:07, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

VF2413[edit]

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This is a VF radio station that exists solely to provide information and music relating to exhibits at the Saskatchewan Western Development Museum. As has been established in several other recent AfDs, neither VF stations nor tourist information stations receive the presumption of notability for broadcast stations. In addition, the article itself admits that whether or not the station is still operating is "uncertain"; in the years since VF2413's 2003 licensing, the CRTC has exempted tourist information stations from licensing. (While technical authorization from Industry Canada is still needed, that's not enough, and unlicensed stations also do not enjoy any presumption of notability.) The call sign seems an unlikely enough search term that I am not recommending a redirect to the museum's article (WP:BROADCAST suggests that such a redirect might be an alternative to an article, but I don't believe this is required); I definitely doubt that it has any notability independent of the museum, much less sufficient coverage in reliable sources to satisfy the general notability guideline. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 23:10, 6 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Radio-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 23:10, 6 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. As with almost all stations of this type, the overarching problem here is the total unverifiability as to whether such a station is still in operation or not — for low-power specialty stations like this, the CRTC licenses have always typically been the only potential sources we ever really had in the first place, so as soon as it got a license exemption its status became impossible for us to verify any further. There's also little substantive public interest to be served in maintaining an article about such a narrowcast topic, since people are profoundly unlikely to be looking for information about it as a standalone thing. Nominator is also correct that a redirect wouldn't be useful here — VF call signs are such an obscure bit of technical insider baseball that even if somebody actually was looking for information about it, that still isn't the title they'd search for. Bearcat (talk) 17:03, 8 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.