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394:. From a deletion that passed through my watchlist about 4 months ago - Kal Rudman is a media personality in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Quite a notable subject, to be sure. However, the article was littered with promotional spam. In the end, the article was deleted. Don't say I didn't warn you. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any evidence of the deletion process (normally the case with 376:
has been moribund, probably for longer than I've been involved with it. Seemingly TONS of Alaska-related articles suffer from one or more of the same problems that this article does. The root of the problem appears to be a lack of interest in maintaining Knowledge (XXG) from within Alaska, so we're
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To put this in perspective, who cares? The GNG is not in any way, shape or form qualified by the popularity of a subject. It is whether the subject is discussed in multiple, reliable, third-party sources. This subject is, regardless of how many people were tuned in when the plug was pulled.
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concerns. If there is a source explaining the reasons for the drop in listener numbers, it would add an interesting aspect to the article. I maintain that the history, development and ultimate decline of the station is a useful resource of encyclopedic value to others who may be running or
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at the mercy of those who spend an inordinate amount of their time here parroting media topics (e.g. Sarah Palin, Lisa Murkowski) or pursuing personal agendas, or even those who feel it appropriate to fill pages with copied-and-pasted material from copyrighted websites.
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little depth of coverage in third-party sources, and apparently none from outside the station's immediate vicinity. The article itself appears mostly unsourced/
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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I agree with Edison, there are sources proving its notable. I added in a reception section to the article
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quoting the president of a notable Indie music store, who recommended them as a source for indie music.
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To put this in perspective, it apparently only had about a dozen listeners when it shut down.
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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It satisfies the notability requirements but the article has many issues and was subject to
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Which is, of course, a content dispute more properly handled on the article's talk page.
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.
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Per significant external coverage in reliable sources by
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Knowledge (XXG):Articles for deletion
deletion review
Ron Ritzman
talk
01:46, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
Whole Wheat Radio
Whole Wheat Radio
edit
talk
history
protect
delete
links
watch
logs
views
View log
Google
books
news
scholar
free images
WP refs
FENS
JSTOR
TWL
WP:WEB
Shii
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14:08, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

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