Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/4 Square (TV series)

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The result was delete. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 01:45, 4 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

4 Square (TV series)

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Fails WP:NSERIES. Unsourced, and the British game show with the same name makes it difficult to search for sources. » Shadowowl | talk 21:51, 27 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to List of programs broadcast by Treehouse TV It only existed to fill time where commercials would go if it was advertiser-supported and nothing more. Nate • (chatter) 23:53, 27 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

While the show sometimes aired segments between other television shows, the show was also aired on its own in 15+ minute segments. 209.90.140.72 (talk) 22:18, 28 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Does it really matter how it aired? Was it done with continuity between to connect these segments with connecting commentary in-between? Doubtful. More likely it filled dead time slots and was just three ten-minute segments or two/three seven-minute segments packed together the same way anyone would create an iTunes playlist with just some 'here's the next one' filled in-between each segment. Nate • (chatter) 23:33, 28 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 09:35, 28 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 09:35, 28 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete and/or redirect. To be fair, this was created 12 years ago, a time when our sourcing and notability standards were a lot more lax for TV shows than they are now — in 2006, a television show was granted a presumption of notability as long as its mere existence was verifiable via its own website. But that was a grave mistake which left us too open to advertorial abuse, so we've since considerably tightened up WP:NMEDIA's standards for the notability of a television show: now, a show is extended notability only if it can be shown as the subject of reliable source coverage about it in media. Since it aired in the 2000s, I ran a ProQuest search for older sourcing, and while I did find a glancing namecheck of its existence in an article about its network, I found nothing which was actually about the show for the purposes of getting it over NMEDIA. Bearcat (talk) 23:01, 28 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - I'm unable to find any reliable sources for this show. The proposed redirect provides little information about the topic (it's no longer broadcast by Treehouse TV) and is unlikely to be informative to readers who purposely search for the term. None of the other incoming links would be harmed by deleting this material. Argento Surfer (talk) 18:55, 31 July 2018 (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.