Talk:Channel Zero Inc.

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[edit] Notability

Our notability guidelines set very specific and narrow requirements for "reliable sources" to establish the notability of an article's subject as well as the extent such a source has to cover the subject. To survive as an article on Wikipedia, at least one of our notability guidelines has to be satisfied. Here are the ones relevant to this article:

So far, I haven't seen any references provided that meet anything in either guideline. I did a Google News archive search and came up with 39 hits when searching for "Channel Zero" + network. Many, however, appear to be passing mentions of Channel Zero Inc., recycled press releases or articles covering some different but similarly named channel or programme. All I found of value was:

That coverage, however, is insufficient in extent to establish notability. I did not, however, examine all 39 hits and I encourage this article's partisaans to see if they can find something. Barring that, this article is probably headed for another articles for deletion discussion (AfD).


This article barely survived AfD once before:

The organization's channels have also had varied histories here:


In part these articles survive because of concerns expressed about the way in which multiple articles were bundled together into one AfD:

Bundled AfDs are allowed but it was felt it was done inappropriately with this one and the involved articles were restored for individual AfDs following this "bundled" DRV (deletion review discussion):

Affected articles:
  1. Maleflixxx Television
  2. AOV Adult Movie Channel
  3. Movieola
  4. XXX Action Clips Channel

There are also two others that have been deleted:

  • Ouat Media
    • speedily deleted twice as blatant advertising
  • Le Canal Erotique AOV

Might it make more sense to merge all this stuff into one well-sourced article with redirects for each of the merged articles?
--A. B. (talk • contribs) 19:32, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

As for the individual channel articles, the articles that survived the AfDs stays as is, there's no need in messing with them again, we've already went through this once before and the people have agreed that they should stay.

As for the Channel Zero Inc. article itself, I find nothing wrong with it personally. It's an article about a broadcasting and media company with more then one, actually several assets to its name, which broadcast nationally and a production company that distributes internationally. I think there is something inherently notable about that. Since the last deletion review on this article, it has expanded somewhat, and there is sufficient amount of info within the article to allow it to stay.

I've found a couple more links and references to add to the list which I think can add to the point of its notability:

musimax. (talk) 23:12, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Channel Zero's inappropriate use of Wikipedia for promotion

Multiple single purpose accounts have been involved with various Channel Zero related articles:

  • Ouat Media
  • Ribbly
  • 70.52.141.39
  • Matt.kissick
  • Bhboyle
  • 206.223.182.74 (registered to Channel Zero)

If any of these accounts are affiliated with Channel Zero, it against our rules to edit this article:

If editors associated with this company would like to see changes to these articles, they're encouraged to suggest them here the article's talk pages. They may not edit the articles themselves. Violating these rules will just lead to unnecessary hassles, COI notice tags and extended discussions at the Conflict of Interest Noticeboard.
--A. B. (talk • contribs) 19:32, 27 May 2008 (UTC)