The result was redirect to Rogers Cable#History. As an ATD. If there is content that is pertinent to the target article, consider merge. Liz Read! Talk! 07:25, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
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Article about a defunct small local cable television provider, not
properly sourced as passing
WP:CORPDEPTH. The only apparent notability claim here is that the company existed, and the only sources are a single
CRTC decision and a corporate press release -- and the strongest keep argument in the original discussion from 2005, that it provided some insight into why Aurora was one of the only suburbs in the entire
Greater Toronto Area that was still served by an independent local cable provider instead of by
Rogers Cable, became moot three years later when the company was acquired by none other than Rogers Cable.
This just doesn't have any notability claim "inherent" enough to withstand how little proper sourcing it has.
Bearcat (
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18:48, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
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Randykitty (
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13:14, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
While the financial details of the transaction have not been made public, with [...] an industry rule-of-thumb price of about $3,000 a subscriber, the Irvines could be clearing as much as $48-million from the deal.
quotations, press releases, announcements, interviews, "interviews" have unlike the others no consensus for blanket exclusion for GNG. This is because an interview is generally not published by the interviewee themselves (as is the case with the other items in that list), but by the interviewer who has ultimate editorial control. There have been multiple highly-contentious discussions about the role of interviews for purposes of Wikipedia notability (some of which I was personally involved in), all of which ultimately ended without consensus as far as I am aware. However, there seems to be broad agreement (as exemplified at Wikipedia:Interviews, which is still only an essay for the exact reason of lacking consensus on the overall issue) that the more editorial oversight an interview has undergone, the more suitable it is for assessing the notability of the article subject. In this case, these are fundamentally articles that happen to contain interview content, not even interviews per se (as often seen in certain magazine sources, etc.), which puts them towards the end of the scale close to "fully acceptable for GNG".
Do not reject reliable sources just because they are difficult or costly to access.
interspersed with non-quoted materialthat is
clearly written by the article authorand including
significant amounts of "independent content"- I disagree. The content, tone and context of the "non-quoted material" provides no indications of original and independent opinion, analysis, investigation, and fact checking that are clearly attributable to a source unaffiliated to the subject. In fact in may cases the non-quoted material does not contain any in-depth information about the company at all, or when it does it is simply re-stating what was said. It is a very common format that can be found in just about all puff profile pieces. I've looked at each article again, but for me, there is nothing to indicate that the author has contributed any independent opinion/fact checking/analysis/investigation/etc. You've highlighted one particular sentence as an example of "Independent Content" and I can agree that this appears to be the journalist's own opinion - but lets go through the entire article, remove the non-independent content and evaluate the remaining content against NCORP (and WP:CORPDEPTH in particular). If I do that to the articles in question, I really only have the odd sentence here and there remaining and taken together, fails CORPDEPTH.
Primary sources cannot be used to establish notabilityand includes "memoirs or interview by executives" in the list of examples. The essay also makes it clear that a very narrow selection of interviews (e.g. ones that show a depth of preparation such as memoirs, 60 minutes type programs which show secondary opinion/analysis) qualify for establishing notability and as I've already pointed out, none of those publications show any signs of secondary opinion/analysis (or sufficient to then go on to meet CORPDEPTH).
A topic is presumed to merit an article if: (1) It meets either the general notability guideline (GNG) below, or the criteria outlined in a subject-specific notability guideline (SNG) listed in the box on the right; and (2) It is not excluded under the What Wikipedia is not policy.The GNG is therefore applicable to all articles, whether there is also an SNG covering them or not, and either (or both) can be used to show an article's notability.
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
Liz
Read!
Talk!
03:41, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
The result was redirect to Rogers Cable#History. As an ATD. If there is content that is pertinent to the target article, consider merge. Liz Read! Talk! 07:25, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
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Article about a defunct small local cable television provider, not
properly sourced as passing
WP:CORPDEPTH. The only apparent notability claim here is that the company existed, and the only sources are a single
CRTC decision and a corporate press release -- and the strongest keep argument in the original discussion from 2005, that it provided some insight into why Aurora was one of the only suburbs in the entire
Greater Toronto Area that was still served by an independent local cable provider instead of by
Rogers Cable, became moot three years later when the company was acquired by none other than Rogers Cable.
This just doesn't have any notability claim "inherent" enough to withstand how little proper sourcing it has.
Bearcat (
talk)
18:48, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
Randykitty (
talk)
13:14, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
While the financial details of the transaction have not been made public, with [...] an industry rule-of-thumb price of about $3,000 a subscriber, the Irvines could be clearing as much as $48-million from the deal.
quotations, press releases, announcements, interviews, "interviews" have unlike the others no consensus for blanket exclusion for GNG. This is because an interview is generally not published by the interviewee themselves (as is the case with the other items in that list), but by the interviewer who has ultimate editorial control. There have been multiple highly-contentious discussions about the role of interviews for purposes of Wikipedia notability (some of which I was personally involved in), all of which ultimately ended without consensus as far as I am aware. However, there seems to be broad agreement (as exemplified at Wikipedia:Interviews, which is still only an essay for the exact reason of lacking consensus on the overall issue) that the more editorial oversight an interview has undergone, the more suitable it is for assessing the notability of the article subject. In this case, these are fundamentally articles that happen to contain interview content, not even interviews per se (as often seen in certain magazine sources, etc.), which puts them towards the end of the scale close to "fully acceptable for GNG".
Do not reject reliable sources just because they are difficult or costly to access.
interspersed with non-quoted materialthat is
clearly written by the article authorand including
significant amounts of "independent content"- I disagree. The content, tone and context of the "non-quoted material" provides no indications of original and independent opinion, analysis, investigation, and fact checking that are clearly attributable to a source unaffiliated to the subject. In fact in may cases the non-quoted material does not contain any in-depth information about the company at all, or when it does it is simply re-stating what was said. It is a very common format that can be found in just about all puff profile pieces. I've looked at each article again, but for me, there is nothing to indicate that the author has contributed any independent opinion/fact checking/analysis/investigation/etc. You've highlighted one particular sentence as an example of "Independent Content" and I can agree that this appears to be the journalist's own opinion - but lets go through the entire article, remove the non-independent content and evaluate the remaining content against NCORP (and WP:CORPDEPTH in particular). If I do that to the articles in question, I really only have the odd sentence here and there remaining and taken together, fails CORPDEPTH.
Primary sources cannot be used to establish notabilityand includes "memoirs or interview by executives" in the list of examples. The essay also makes it clear that a very narrow selection of interviews (e.g. ones that show a depth of preparation such as memoirs, 60 minutes type programs which show secondary opinion/analysis) qualify for establishing notability and as I've already pointed out, none of those publications show any signs of secondary opinion/analysis (or sufficient to then go on to meet CORPDEPTH).
A topic is presumed to merit an article if: (1) It meets either the general notability guideline (GNG) below, or the criteria outlined in a subject-specific notability guideline (SNG) listed in the box on the right; and (2) It is not excluded under the What Wikipedia is not policy.The GNG is therefore applicable to all articles, whether there is also an SNG covering them or not, and either (or both) can be used to show an article's notability.
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
Liz
Read!
Talk!
03:41, 18 December 2022 (UTC)