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Not a useful or encyclopedically relevant list. This just
indiscriminately lists any OTA television network that broadcasts in a country where English is an official language at all, even if the network itself is broadcasting in some minority language other than English (e.g. the French networks in Canada, the Spanish ones in the United States and an Afrikaans one in South Africa are also included here.) This was closed no-consensus the first time it was nominated, because the page's creator was the only participant and gave a keep rationale on the grounds that the article could be retitled and pruned — but 3.5 years later that still hasn't actually happened, so we can't just keep waiting for it. It's still not useful to maintain a list of all television networks, regardless of language, in countries where English happens to be an official language — if the matter of whether the networks actually broadcast in English or not isn't the point of the list, then the list doesn't actually have a point at all.
Bearcat (
talk) 00:52, 13 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete First close was a bad close and should have remained open for a longer comment period. We have 'list of' networks for nearly every country and templates to boot; this is a completely duplicative and useless article. Nate•(
chatter) 01:05, 13 February 2018 (UTC)reply
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Mrschimpf: Can you cite exactly what this is duplicative of? ~
Kvng (
talk) 03:26, 13 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Bearcat cited what I would have anyways; in addition the templates for each country exist and also organize the information the same way. This list is an 'OK for 2005' type of list we would slap multiple tags on if it was created in 2018. Nate•(
chatter) 05:00, 13 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Thanks for the replies. I now understand how this is duplicative. Duplicative is not always a problem. I don't see a strong reason for deleting it or a strong reason for keeping it so will sit this one out. ~
Kvng (
talk) 15:39, 14 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete Broadcasters are already listed by country. It could be refactored as a list of English-language broadcasters, but that list would be an equally indiscriminate collection of names. –
dlthewave☎ 18:47, 13 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete- It duplicates information that can be found elsewhere.--
Rusf10 (
talk) 04:40, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
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