Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Huntsville TV Tower

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 08:03, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Huntsville TV Tower

Huntsville TV Tower (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Slightly more noteable than your average telephone pole, I guess, but really not noteable enough to be in an encyclopedia Descendall 09:19, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Jeez, I didn't even go to List of masts before I nominated this. I think a whole lot of these things are probably non-noteable. Do we really need an article about a radio tower that was less than 500 feet tall and was knocked down in 1945? There's a pretty big water tower near my house, but I've never even dreamed about writing an article about it. --Descendall 09:26, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete Don't see how this could become an encyclopedic article. Wikipedia is not a FCC antenna tower database (and one exists already, as the article points out). What is there to say about this tower? They came, they built it, it was a bit easier for people to receive TV and radio broadcasts in Huntsville, it needs maintenance from time to time... Fun fact: There are 87,212 active, inactive and dismantled towers, masts, tower arrays and tower multiple structures registered in the USA, according to the FCC database. Of these, 287 were 400 feet or more Above Ground Level (which is not the same as how tall they are), and 121 were 500 feet or more AGL. Bwithh 09:43, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
• Comment: I know see that this is on List of tallest structures in the world. Looking at that list, one can see that there are a large number of TV and radio towers that are much smaller than this one that have articles on them. If this goes, most, if not all of those articles should go too. If those other articles are to stay, then this article should stay. --Descendall 11:50, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
  • No, it shouldn't. -- Kicking222 14:49, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Bwithh. -- Kicking222 14:49, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
• Strong delete - What's next, cell towers? --cholmes75 ^{(chit chat)} 16:34, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. It's like the architectural equivalent of a dicdef. "It's a tower, here's the coordinates. Bye." No thanks. --Aaron 21:20, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect-free merge into Minor Hill, Tennessee. TTV (MyTV|PolygonZ|Green Valley) 21:25, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
• Raaahg! If the Eiffel Tower can have an article, then certainly ... no, wait, that doesn't follow. Delete this and similar articles, with no prejudice against recreation in the improbable case that somebody finds something encyclopaedic to say about it. Henning Makholm 22:38, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete It is a mast. Whoop-te-doo. No proof it is notable. Next it will be articles about municipal watertowers. Edison 00:08, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete I was going to argue for keeping it since it is on the List of tallest structure in the world, but then I actually looked at that list... now that is an example of a list that's gotten out of hand, someone should trim that by about 3/4ths. --The Way 09:33, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. First NN schools, then NN churches, then NN malls, then NN streets, then NN shops, and now NN towers. We should have been tougher on schools when we had the chance. WMMartin 18:32, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per comment of Descendall, above. 69.140.173.15 21:10, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Uh, what? I nominated it for deletion. --Descendall 01:28, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

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.