Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shortwave bands

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The result of the debate was - kept - SimonP 15:06, May 13, 2005 (UTC)

Shortwave bands[edit]

Extremely badly written, I believe it would be better to get rid of it completely and start from the scratch. Delete. - Mike Rosoft 13:13, 3 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Perfectly encyclopedic. Just needs a tweak here and there to turn the jargon into English. Delete the article and we'd lose the information, which would not be very sensible. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 14:16, 3 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Encyclopedic topic although the article needs cleanup. Capable of significant expansion if we can get an experienced ham to work on it. Quale 17:47, 3 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep — There are a bunch of redirects to this page from amateur radio as well. — RJH 19:16, 3 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep; if a cleanup tag wasn't enough, Wikipedia:Cleanup would be the place to take it. Samaritan 20:26, 3 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Golden Age of Wireless Klonimus 05:18, 4 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep but oh, dear mother of Wiki, let's clean this up. DXing and shortwave listening are old hobbies of mine. If I can decipher this, I'll try cleaning it up. - Lucky 6.9 03:32, 5 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep but needs a massive rewrite. This article appears to have been written by a barely-literate ham who has virtually no shortwave listening experience -- these are ham bands, not broadcasting bands, and as such wouldn't be the bands a shortwave listener would be looking for unless they were specifically looking for ham communications to listen to. This article, based on its title, should have the SWL bands listed most prominently and have the ham bands as second-string. Haikupoet 01:04, 8 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I've degarbaged it. It still needs work (particularly in relation to marine and commercial applications of shortwave) but it's at least readable. Unfortunately, since I am a lowly Technician and not a General or Extra I don't know enough about the amateur bands to rewrite what was originally there in a coherent fashion, so that could use some love too. Haikupoet 03:03, 8 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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