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We don't have any other topic overviews of TV stations by market in this style. The contents lack citations and duplicate {{SF TV}} and the various pages featured.
Sammi Brie (she/her •
t •
c) 00:53, 10 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Delete Duplicated links THREE TIMES over and just not how we do articles any longer. Nate•(
chatter) 03:07, 10 September 2021 (UTC)reply
KeepWP:CLN explains that lists, categories and other forms of navigation such as templates are complementary and so the existence of one is not a reason to delete another format.
Andrew🐉(
talk) 08:28, 10 September 2021 (UTC)reply
While generally true, [[
WP:NMEDIALIST]] provides more specific elaboration ~
Shushugah (he/him •
talk) 15:45, 10 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Delete per
WP:NMEDIALIST which explicitly forbids lists in cities by specific types of media. ~
Shushugah (he/him •
talk) 15:45, 10 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Keep.
WP:NMEDIALIST is essay-level, and for good reason. It may well be worth having these sorts of articles in our encyclopedia;
we're not limited by paper space constraints and they provide valuable information to someone trying to use Wikipedia as a reference book for these things. —
Mikehawk10 (
talk) 05:43, 11 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
Spirit of Eagle (
talk) 05:02, 17 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Comment this article needs to be refactored into a SORTABLE list with columns for Network/Independent, defuct/active, etc. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Estheim (
talk •
contribs) 23:04, 19 September 2021 (UTC)reply
As written now, this is more of a topical overview. It's more like
History of television in Atlanta, which is a big yiker too: it's lacking references badly.
Sammi Brie (she/her •
t •
c) 00:04, 21 September 2021 (UTC)reply
How I'd organize it, albeit a lower quality example, is
Radio in Guyana, where there's a general topic summary, then that sortable list that directs interested parties to read in detail. I think it's better for people who aren't enthusiasts but perhaps need a general idea for personal or educational purposes. Plus that makes coming up with sources easier and more tidy.
Checking again, I see that there's
Media in the San Francisco Bay Area that also contains dupes of corresponding List articles. This is a very annoying problem because WP contradicts itself due to different editors managing and updating lists (and being totally unaware of other lists, a problem I experience frequently). There's a few different ways this could be handled, but if "TV in the bay area" is considered a significant enough topic, (sure, why not?) merge the TV section from
Media in the San Francisco Bay Area into this page and change this from a list article into a prose one. That way any new additions to Bay Area TV would be directed right away to add it here only.
Estheim (
talk) 01:07, 21 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Keep per
WP:CLN. It's a useful navigation page.
WP:NMEDIALIST is not a policy and does not have wide community support.
4meter4 (
talk) 18:10, 23 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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