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The result was delete. ✗ plicit 00:22, 11 July 2021 (UTC) reply

List of public television news programs

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Unsourced and weirdly organized list with maintainability issues, on a characteristic that isn't necessarily a useful grouping of topics.
Essentially, this is just a list of television news programs aired by publicly-funded broadcasters -- but that isn't necessarily a useful point of comparison between, say, PBS NewsHour in the United States and Xinwen Lianbo in China or between BBC News at Six in the United Kingdom and 보도 in North Korea, because the context of what publicly funded broadcasting even means varies from country to country. (It means something very different in a democratic society than it does in an authoritarian dictatorship, for example.)
Furthermore, this list includes offsite links to almost every listed program's own self-published website, which Wikipedia lists are not supposed to do, and for some of the listed entries even the "programme" column interlangs to a foreign-language Wikipedia article instead of an English-language Wikipedia article, which we're also not supposed to do since most readers of the English Wikipedia don't understand the foreign language in order to even be able to read the article.
And on top of that, it also obliterates a lot of context, since in some cases it lists one newscast for networks that produce several newscasts -- for example, the CBC in Canada also produces morning, noon, 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts in addition to the prime time newscast, as well as a couple of investigative newsmagazine series, rolling throughout-the-day newscasts on a full 24-hour news channel, and lather, rinse and repeat all of that in French too.
This just isn't an important or meaningful point of commonality between the listed programs per se, because it just buries far too much context and nuance and complexity in the sand, and violates several of our rules about lists in the process. Bearcat ( talk) 00:03, 4 July 2021 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. Bearcat ( talk) 00:03, 4 July 2021 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Bearcat ( talk) 00:03, 4 July 2021 (UTC) reply

• Delete per nom. This list fails to distinguish between public broadcasting and state media among the other problems mentioned by the nom. In addition, the list apparently fails to include any news programs that are no longer being broadcast. It also uses text in non-roman writing systems in a way which is not accessible to readers of the English Wikipedia. -- Metropolitan90 (talk) 01:02, 4 July 2021 (UTC) reply
• Delete per nom - WP:SYNTH problems as well as problems with "selecting" one news program to list. User:力 (power~enwiki, π, ν) 01:51, 4 July 2021 (UTC) reply
• Delete per Met90's reasoning; this article simply doesn't know what public broadcasting and state media are, and the difference between them. The choices are also incredibly random; BBC News at Six isn't the BBC's prime news show by any means, while the ABC's 7.30 isn't even a straight newscast. Nate • ( chatter) 21:59, 4 July 2021 (UTC) reply
• Delete per Met90. killer bee  06:56, 6 July 2021 (UTC) reply

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