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The result was no consensus. I would suggest continuing the refactoring discussion. j⚛e decker ^talk 00:06, 29 October 2014 (UTC) reply

List of over-the-air broadcasters in English-speaking countries

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I'm really struggling to understand the actual encyclopedic value of this list as constituted. The inclusion criteria here are that as long as the listed country has an English-speaking community, then all of its OTA television networks are listed here even if those networks themselves actually broadcast in French or Spanish or Chinese instead. Wikipedia does not exist as a venue for compiling lists of every thing it would technically be possible to compile a list of — while a list of broadcasters compiled by the language of the broadcaster would certainly be a legitimately encyclopedic thing to have, a list that starts from a (non-exclusive) language of the country and then proceeds to include non-English broadcasters in those countries too is just WP:TRIVIA at best, and approaches WP:INDISCRIMINATE at worst. And a "language of the broadcaster" list wouldn't have this title, either, so it's not just a matter of removing the non-English networks from the list. Delete. Bearcat ( talk) 17:30, 13 October 2014 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k ( talk) 21:30, 13 October 2014 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k ( talk) 21:30, 13 October 2014 (UTC) reply

• Keep - Nom gives a number of alternatives to deletion but gives no strong justification as to why deletion is preferred. I personally prefer to rename as List of English over-the-air broadcasters and remove non-English stations. ~ KvnG 13:15, 17 October 2014 (UTC) reply

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Natg 19 ( talk) 06:07, 21 October 2014 (UTC) reply

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