Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/K17HC
The nominator fails to disclose here that this article was part of a slew of PRODs they initiated, all offering the exact same rationale (the first sentence in this rationale).  This particular PROD was contested on the basis of BCAST,  and  (explained below).  Their response was to suddenly change the argument (the second sentence in this rationale).  BCAST does not address the unique circumstances of this station.  Rather, it is pretty clear-cut: either a station originates a signal to a broadcast area and is notable, or repeats a signal originating elsewhere and is not notable.  At the time of this article's creation in 2009, it described a station which met the former criteria.  Under the very black-and-white standards of BCAST, the fact that it was a low-power UHF station broadcasting programming commonly found these days on digital television subchannels is irrelevant.  Wikipedia's coverage of television outlets in the United States has been hijacked by a small group of editors who work almost exclusively in this topic area, are dismissive and even passive-aggressive towards input from the editing community at large, and who have weighted coverage of the topic area heavily towards current/recent events and the small handful of broadcasting companies which pass properties back and forth as if they were a cheap whore.  The nominator's editing activity shows them to be one such person.  I've been editing articles on television outlets for close to a decade and there are plenty of minor stations where third-party sourcing is sorely lacking.  The consensus has been that the information found in {{Tl|BIA}} and {{Tl|FCC-LMS-Facility}} are suitable substitutes for third-party citations in establishing notability.  This is problematic in this case, as it allows for NTEMP and DEGRADE to be flagrantly disregarded and gives credence to the notion that notability hinges solely on current mention in the linked databases.  The nominator seeks to capitalize on the lack of current mention in those databases, as well as diverting your attention away from the station's early history when it held a claim to notability and have you focus on it later becoming a translator and still later becoming defunct.  Another argument raised here is that it should redirect to Gray Television, ignoring that its history as a translator (never mind the prior history described above) precedes Gray's purchase of KYES.  This is another widespread POV found in coverage of this topic area, namely that by buying a broadcast property, one is entitled to buy exposure on the encyclopedia
— User:RadioKAOS, 15:27, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NTEMP||WP:DEGRADE (Wikipedia:Notability)