Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SportstalkNETWORK

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. postdlf (talk) 03:13, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

SportstalkNETWORK

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Not notable. Little or no coverage online aside from the subject's own website. No reliable sources found online (using Google News, Books, etc.), which may explain why there are none in the article to begin with. Only a disambig page and other non-article pages (mostly unregistered user pages) link to this article. Article is also written like an advertisement. User who created page may have connection to subject. Levdr1 (talk) 02:41, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:44, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as web-based "radio station" that fails to cross the verifiability or notability thresholds. I've done some cleanup, some reformatting, and stripped out the linkfarm but the only sources I can find are passing mentions of a site with the same URL from 2005. Also, the article claims a 2010 launch but the Pro Wrestling Insider website talks about a January 2010 launch. In any case, I can't confirm anything about this site beyond "it exists". - Dravecky (talk) 05:54, 30 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Has multiple cities connections for now, and has been around at least since 2005. I'll see what I can do for further references. Various WWE wrestlers have been on at least three different programs of theirs thru the years. ayt least one of which wasn't wrestling themed at all.--King Bedford I ^{Seek his grace} 18:41, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- This link seems to help with notabilty, as before it spread to other cities it was just Sportstalkcleveland.com: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-07-10/sports/ct-spt-0711-nba-lebron-james--20100710_1_villains-king-james-lebron-james --King Bedford I ^{Seek his grace} 18:45, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Keep/Delete argument should be discussed along with Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/SportstalkCLEVELAND, and not separately.--King Bedford I ^{Seek his grace} 03:04, 1 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Aside from the SportstalkNetwork.com, I can find nothing online or in print to verify that SportstalkNetwork serves multiple cities; the website itself isn't entirely convincing, either. I also can find nothing to verify that "various WWE wrestlers" have appeared on Sportstalk programs; even if they did, that alone fails to demonstrate notability. As for the Chicago Tribune link, two issues: first, it refers to SportstalkCleveland, not SportstalkNetwork; and second, the subject of that article is Lebron James, not SportstalkNetwork, not SportstalkCleveland. --Levdr1 (talk) 17:07, 1 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. No reliable sources providing substantial coverage, and yes, I checked. SchuminWeb (Talk) 01:36, 2 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. An assertion of notability doesn't count for scratch if it can't be verified by reliable sources (the organization's own website doesn't count.) Bearcat (talk) 20:28, 6 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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.