Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Radio Rainbow

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 of the debate was Delete. Deathphoenix ʕ 00:33, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Radio Rainbow (and the redirect RADIO RAINBOW)

This page was created by User:PERSBUREAU AZP, whose sole contributions have been to litter every pirate radio article s/he can find with references to "Radio Rainbow". One moment s/he is claiming that the Radio London organisation are behind the 'venture' [1] (highly improbable, by the way), another moment that it is Ronan O'Rahilly and Radio Caroline [2], [3], [4]. There's no apparent notability for this station, a Google search is mostly fruitless. It seems that it only broadcasts at weekends, if at all, and - strangely for an 'offshore station' there's no photo of their vessel to be found (by me at least). Delete both. kingboyk 13:26, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

• Keep for now. I'm willing to let this article stand for now because Radio Rainbow may possibly have some notability. Unfortunately the current article makes alot of unsubstantiated claims (i.e. Secret Service jamming; offshore broadcasting). If these claims are not sourced soon they should be removed. Also author should be warned about spamming links to Radio Rainbow around to other Pirate radio articles without sourcing his or her wild claims.Abstain pending further investigation (see below).--Isotope23 18:00, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

• I'm extremely surprised to see you voting Keep after just debunking the article on Talk:Radio Rainbow, but there we go :) He has been warned, but I just spotted that the talk page was edited by the same name in lower case (User:Persbureau azp). --kingboyk 18:04, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

• Upon some further investigation, I withdraw that keep for now. There are quite a few uses of this name out there in the world. There is an Afropop station, a defunct streaming clubmix website, A yogi webcast, and a plethora of gay pride stations, all using the name. Furthermore, a quick check finds evidence of other pirate & clandestine sites using the same name: [5], [6]. These are apparently talking about 2 stations that are different from the one referenced in this article, one run by an Irish and one dedicated to Ethiopian issues transmitting from Germany. Still, some of the info from the article seems to be taken from these sites. The only other evidence is the blogspot site, but that isn't really evidence at all. I say all sorts of crazy stuff on my blog; that doesn't make it true. All of this is nudging me away from a Keep. Even if this station is demonstrated to be true, how is it any more notable than the dozen other stations/websites using the name?--Isotope23 18:24, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

• My findings were similar, but a few days or weeks ago (I've been dealing with this nonsense on the Caroline article for some time). This seems to be quite specifically about an offshore station, and I still keep wondering "where is the bloody ship?!". Radio Caroline's Ross Revenge had a 300ft antenna mast, it was quite hard to miss :) --kingboyk 18:41, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

• Weak Delete Would be notible if some evidence could be found to back up its claims, aside from its own sources. --InShaneee 23:26, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete no WP:V evidence of claims.--Isotope23 21:00, 2 March 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.