Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Radio Kaleidoscope

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 No consensus - Copyvio concerns rendered moot by Wwwhatsup. If the station was significant in keeping the free radio flag flying in the late 60s, the relaible sources likely are in old papers rather than on the Interent. Strip away the copyvio discussion and the only thing remaining is no consensus. -- Jreferee t/c 07:02, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Radio Kaleidoscope

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non-notable pirate station, copied from website http://www.gunfleet.com/page13/page13.html Rapido 22:07, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Would you check that link? I get a 404 error. i ^said 04:07, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

• Speedy delete as copyvio and tagged as such. Someguy1221 22:12, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
• Speedy delete Yup. Definitely a copyvio. NASCAR Fan24^{(radio me!)} 22:16, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
• Comment: The linked site attributes text to "Mark King August 2007", while this article's history traces back to June 13 2007. The text in this article does read like ad copy (a notion supported by the "press@radio-k.com" annotation at the bottom of the first revision), but it does not necessarily constitute copyright infringement. The user who posted this content released it under the GFDL, and the provided link does nothing to negate that release. Note that I'm not commenting in support of this article, just that this discussion should focus on the article's claims of notability and advertorial purpose. ˉˉ^anetode╦╩ 00:14, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
• Delete speedy or not (I did in fact delete it in an edit conflict with Anetode's declining of speedy) - I am not sufficiently convinced that the person who submitted it is the owner of the copyrighted website (as the editor has the username Jollyorange which corresponds with a former DJ named Steve T. which doesn't match Mark King the purported copyright holder). Any way, I suppose that in that business pseudonyms are part of the game. In any event, apart from the copyvio - there are no 3rd party references, and the tone is more promotional than is proper. "Radio Kaleidoscope" does generate lots of ghits, as apparently it is a not uncommon tag line for a radio station - there's one in Grenoble and another in Poland, as well as a slew of podcasts - that generate many of the ghits. There are a few (books) that appear to be RSes for the Radio Kaleidoscope but they are in the nature of covering the entire pirate radio phenomenon - without access to the books it is difficult to tell whether this radio station gets significant coverage or is just mentioned in lists of such stations as just one of the instances. Carlossuarez46 00:31, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
• Speedy delete. Could be made into a good article, passes WP:ORG with flying colours, but for now is just a copyvio.--Voxpuppet (talk • contribs) 02:24, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
• Speedy delete. We don't need to clutter up AFD with obvious copyright violations. Burntsauce 17:14, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. The station was significant in keeping the free radio flag flying in the late 60s, and was just about the only station, apart from John Peel on the BBC, to air underground rock at the time. I've rewritten the article to render copyvio concerns moot.Wwwhatsup 02:28, 10 October 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.