Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Come Home to NBC

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The result was merge into NBC slogans, done at User:Some Person/NBC slogans. Neıl ☎ 15:25, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Come Home to NBC

This is part of an effort to remove articles about non-notable television network promotional slogans. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Watched By More Americans Than Any Other Network for the original nomination in the series. Gladys J Cortez 20:29, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merge - into a "slogans" section on NBC, perhaps? —X S G 22:26, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete WP:OR, uncited. As much info needed on this slogan (simply how long it lasted) is at List of NBC slogans Doc Strange (talk) 22:24, 3 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete or failing that, Merge to List of NBC slogans, or similar. Kevlar67 (talk) 01:13, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JERRY ^talk _contribs 23:04, 10 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

KEEP (provisionally), as much as I personally find the subject matter boring and uninteresting, I feel that it should be keep for the following reasons:
- It is part of a legitimate list, and if this article is deleted, then all the others on the list that have internal links should also be deleted (then, as logic dictates, the whole list should be deleted, because if the content of the list not note-worthy, then the list is not note-worthy)
- It is encyclopaedic in content.
- It is not up to me to decide what is noteworthy because what is not note-worty to me, may be to another. As long as it follows the WP guidelines (encyclopaedic, referenced, and third-party cited) then I feel it should be included in this encyclopedia.
- Here is the provision: it DOES, however, need references and third-party citations. If the author (or someone else with an interest) doesn't include this basic necessity for notability then it should be deleted.
- The "localized versions" subsection is a bit redundant and unnecessary, though.Sallicio (talk) 00:16, 11 February 2008 (UTC)Sallicio[reply]
Delete Essentially, this is an article about a particular advertising campaign that ran twenty years ago. While a lot of money is spent on adverstising campaigns, and they often are memorable, they come, they serve their purpose, and they go, never to be heard from again (except on a Dick Clark or Ed McMahon special). In the case of a TV network's promotions for its new fall season, they come and go in a space of a few weeks. And they're almost never memorable; some of the most lame, generic material is that which is used for a "new fall season" promo. Come home, this fall NBC has it all, you'll be talking about this tomorrow... everything except for "Please, we beg of you, don't change the channel"... it's the lowest level of ad campaign. The really creative stuff isn't wasted on a promo lasting a few weeks. As Sallicio concedes, this is both boring and uninteresting.

I don't see anything wrong with doing an article about all of NBC's slogans over the years. Individual articles about individual ad campaigns, however, are another matter. I'm sure that we all remember several different songs that we learned from commercials for McDonald's or Coca-Cola. But that doesn't mean that "You Deserve A Break Today" or "Coke Is It" deserves its own entry in the encyclopedia. And definitely not "Come home to (local NBC affilliate)" Mandsford (talk) 01:24, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Sub-trivial topic, with no sign of real-world impact or notice. It's also completely unsourced by anything reliable: all I see for references are "Youtube, Youtube, Geocities, Youtube, Yahoogroups", etc". --Calton | Talk 15:28, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merge with similar AFD'd articles into one article. I could have sworn there was an article on the slogans. The topic is encyclopedic, but there's no need to have individual articles on each one. 23skidoo (talk) 23:49, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Merge into one article about that network's slogans. Edison (talk) 03:55, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete or merge to NBC article. As per my comments in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Place to Be, I do not think a TV network's slogans deserve a separate article from the TV network itself. --SJK (talk) 09:02, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Merge - have attempted to do so here: User:Some Person/NBC slogans —Preceding comment was added at 05:19, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
- Per my comments on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/We're NBC, Just Watch Us Now, I think this is an excellent compromise solution and I am very impressed with the work Some Person has done. Can we close these AfDs and move the userspace version to article space? Gladys J Cortez 06:09, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Merge, m'kay? Blast Ulna (talk) 06:29, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - just another non-notable slogan-of-the-year. --Orange Mike | Talk 14:08, 19 February 2008 (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.