Talk:Pirate Cat Radio

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This is a true summary of the radio station and not an advertisement.

Per Wikipedia policy as it stands, Part 15 and Title 47 stations are not entitled to articles. Wikipedia's policy is not "anything that exists can have an article"; it's "things that meet our notability criteria can have articles". For radio stations, our notability criterion is "formally licensed by the FCC"; that normally excludes Part 15 and Title 47 operations. Bearcat 22:23, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

But Pirate Cat Radio is more like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Radio_Santa_Cruz not http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KROQ . If I must remove links to the website that is fine.

The difference in that case appears to be that Free Radio Santa Cruz has actually been raided by the FCC because of its unlicensed status. That fact makes it uniquely notable for an unlicensed radio station, and confers a notability that most unlicensed stations don't have. I realize that may not seem fair, but Wikipedia constantly has to guard against people who don't understand the distinction between "encyclopedia" and "online directory of absolutely anything and anyone that wants to be on here"; with that in mind we've tried to come up with concrete guidelines to demonstrate what kinds of topics are sufficiently notable to be here and what aren't. I'm not the one who originally deleted this or blocked it, but I'm willing to unblock it and let you resubmit the article if you can show a concrete reason why this should be considered more notable than usual. Has somebody famous been involved with the station? Has it been profiled in major media coverage of pirate radio? Has the FCC raided it? That kind of thing. Bearcat 19:19, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Pirate Cat Radio has been broadcasting for 10 years, we receive letters from the FCC on a weekly basis. The FCC can not ever raid us be cause we are the first station to ever use Title 47 Section 73.3542 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations in our defense to broadcast. As far as famous people being involved with the station, the list doesnt end. Jell Biafra, Gavin Newsom, Stan Ridgeway, David Bowie, Lee Ving, Angelo Moore, Exien Cervainca, John Doe, Brian Eno... as if it matters. Pirate Cat Radio is the first and only non-licensed radio station to broadcast simultaneously to two major cities at once. Those cities being Los Angeles and San Francisco. The Stations founder Monkey, has run for major of Hollywood and received over 50% of the pre-election vote. Pirate Cat Radio has inspired other station to come on the air. Pirate Cat Radio is the first non-licensed radio station to start a non-license TV station that runs 24/7. What else do you need to know? We deserve a posting in Wikipedia as much as FRSC does, if not more!

Is Wikipedias censorship worse than the FCC?

Forget it, we don't want to be listed in the Wikipedia. We dont want anything to do with a group of fascist that dont know how to make a clear definition between what can and cant be listed.

Then write up some of that stuff in the article, dude. Nobody's being fascist about it; we can't be expected to know these things if the article doesn't say them.

I've unblocked it and restored your article. Please do add some of this stuff to the article; it makes your notability case far clearer than just saying "this is a true summary of the radio station and not an advertisement" does. Bearcat 00:37, 3 December 2006 (UTC)