Talk:CHIN Radio/TV International
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This article was nominated for deletion on March 10, 2006. The result of the debate, which can be found here, was to keep and to merge CHIN (AM) and CHIN-FM into this article. Flowerparty■ 03:14, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
- Per Wikipedia:WikiProject Radio Stations, this merge was not appropriate. North American radio station articles have to be titled with the legal broadcast call sign of the radio station, which means the (AM) or -FM suffixes have to be present in the article title, and the word "radio" cannot be. And the precedent is already clearly established that two stations which share the same call sign but offer distinct programming from each other get two articles, not a merged one. Bearcat 19:15, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
- The merger was with CHIN radio, the company, not the individual radio stations. Rather than have three articles saying the same thing, it was deemed appropriate to merge the three into a single article. Atrian 20:30, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
- A distinction without a difference. The reality is that there's a clear precedent for how Wikipedia is supposed to handle broadcast radio stations, and this merged article doesn't meet it. This article also describes CHIN Radio as a single radio station broadcasting on two frequencies, which it most certainly is not — it's two different radio stations with the same callsign (which is an entirely normal phenomenon in North American broadcasting). Again, the precedent in such a case, per Wikipedia:WikiProject Radio Stations is that two stations get two articles, not a single merged one. The company also owns a radio station in Ottawa; are we going to merge that into this one article too? Bearcat 00:08, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
- The merger was with CHIN radio, the company, not the individual radio stations. Rather than have three articles saying the same thing, it was deemed appropriate to merge the three into a single article. Atrian 20:30, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
I think that was the result of incomplete information: The company also owns a radio station in Ottawa, CJLL-FM, operates the legendary CHIN Picnics and other events notable independently of the radio stations, and is a Canadian television production company that's produced shows in at least eight different languages on at least three different TV stations. Johnny Lombardi, who was behind all of this, has and merits an article too.
...I know, of course, that we all know all that. The main point is that this could not have been meant as a vote to break all Wikipedia precedent on radio stations. The AM and FM stations broadcast from different transmitter sites with different technical parameters, have distinct histories, programming, etc. Samaritan 22:18, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
