Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Amateur radio in popular culture

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. Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 03:09, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Amateur radio in popular culture

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Laundry list of trivial references, basically amounting to a list of times ham radio has been mentioned, or someone has operated radio without a professional license. --Eyrian 21:32, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

• Speedy Delete per nom. Lists espeicially Trivia list are Definitely not Encyclopedic Sawblade05 22:23, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
• Delete as per listcruft trivia. I would have said speedy, but this does not a criteria for that.--JForget 23:28, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
• Delete - as the article says, "Amateur radio has been used many times as a plot device in films, television, and novels. Here is an ever-lengthening list of amateur radio references.". In other words, it's every mention of amateur radio, no matter how trivial, in those media. Indiscriminate collection of trivia. --Haemo 00:28, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
• Strong Keep Ham radio isn't as popular as it once was, but it had its place in history, and still has a devoted following. I imagine that most Wikipedians were born well after the amateur radio era (which ended in the mid-70s when CB radios came along), but it had a complicated set of rules and regulations, hardware, and culture. There aren't that many movies with amateur radio (Frequency is the only one I've seen in recent times), and the few that are illustrate how it worked. One of the kids in Frequency asked, "Was it like the internet?" In '67, it came close. Mandsford 00:51, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
• Delete - Pure Trivia - WP:FIVE Corpx 02:32, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. "Starsky and Hutch episode circa 1974 or 1975" featured a ham radio. Does it get any more vague than that? More triva/loosely associated topics. Crazysuit 03:21, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
• Delete None of these sets of rough notes can ever become a encyclopedia article. Golfcam 17:37, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per nom, JForget, Corpx and Crazysuit. Could be a redirect and section of Ham radio; contra Golfcam. Bearian 21:06, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
• Comment Please don't redirect or merge this into amateur radio, as I believe it was split from there at some point (I could be wrong). I really don't care what happens to it, but it's one of those things that encourages drive-by unsourced additions, and I'd rather not see that happen to the amateur radio article. I don't mind the pop-culture lists but I guess the current trend now is to nominate them for deletion (that's a different rant), but deleting them and then shoving them into good articles is no way to handle it. If it's deleted they'll probably be shoved into the Amateur_radio#Popular_culture section. I know that's not an argument for keeping or deleting, I am just pointing some things out. daveh4h 04:56, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
• Comment That's the problem with "in popular culture" sections of articles. You can't write a brief generalization using a couple of well known examples and leave it at that. It becomes a magnet for drive-by's, who may be well meaning, but feel that their little bit of trivia belongs there. And soon, you end up wiith a huge cruft heap. So please don't redirect or merge this into amateur radio. -- LuckyLouie 20:21, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Content can probably be trimmed down but will likely still be too much to merge into the main article. Better to tag for cleanup and maybe help with the cleanup than just marking for deletion. StuffOfInterest 12:47, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
• Delete all %SUBJECT% in popular culture lists, they are nothing but trivia and violate the five pillars of Wikipedia as well. Burntsauce 18:53, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
• Can we please transwiki these "in popular culture" articles somewhere? It seems a shame that these useful, interesting, trivia articles to which many people contributed and which many people like are being wiped from existence simply because they might have been put in the wrong place. It also seems that the best way to prevent articles from being trivia magnets is to provide such a trivia magnet elsewhere. Oh yeah, and if we don't have anywhere to transwiki it, then keep per WP:IAR. DHowell 03:24, 27 July 2007 (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.