Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/HD availability in Canada

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The result was speedy keep. Nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure) Go Phightins! 22:18, 27 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

HD availability in Canada

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Primarily an excessive directory of current company channel lineups, constantly changing channel guides, which fails WP:NOTDIR. Most of the lineups -- like BellTV, Shaw Direct, Vidéotron, Cogeco, and Rogers -- had individual pages and were already previously deleted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/3rd bundle of channel lineups. An exhaustive directory with multiple current lineups is nearly impossible to maintain and is surely unencyclopedic. In addition to WP:NOTDIR, I would argue that this type of page also fails WP:IINFO for being an indiscriminate listing of numbers without any encyclopedic value and to some degree WP:NOR for hosting a "comparison" of companies for business purposes.

A list of Canadian HD channels can alternatively found at List of Canadian specialty channels#High definition, so deleting this page would in effect be re-deleting the channel lineups. -- Wikipedical (talk) 21:48, 21 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:23, 22 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:23, 22 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:23, 22 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If we cut out the cable provider information, wouldn't this be a simple list of HD terrestrial broadcast channels in Canada? The "specialty channels" list linked to above excludes those. postdlf (talk) 20:14, 25 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator requests to withdraw this AFD. -- Wikipedical (talk) 23:42, 25 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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