Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result of the debate was keep. Mailer Diablo 09:14, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

List of Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes

This page was created a year ago by an anonymous user and has since had only a handful of minor contributions, my own being the longest. I came to the conclusion, however, that it would be wasted effort to put any more time into the article, as it provides no additional useful information. All we see is the episode's title, two actors (frequently not the leading players, but the first two names copied from the alphabetically-arranged IMDb list) and the date of the broadcast. All of that information (and much more) can be obtained from IMDb. Finally, as I indicated in the edit summary, this article has already been tagged as being overlong. Romanspinner 18:50, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

• Keep, the article needs improvement, but nom. gives no reason it should be deleted. Mangojuice^talk 15:47, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep much preferred to having articles for all the nn. episodes. Carlossuarez46 22:06, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Carlos. Stifle (talk) 00:28, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
• A few additional comments—after having edited hundreds of articles in the past four months, this is the first nomination for deletion that I made. As a lifelong listmaker, I did not make it lightly. The first warning was the tag: "This page is 48 [now 50] kilobytes long. This may be longer than is preferable; see article size". The only articles of that size are (primarily, with a few exceptions) scholarly dissertations on key topics of knowledge. Wikipedia has thousands of lists, but the few plus-size ones should justify their existence with an original viewpoint on subjects that cannot be easily found anywhere else. Otherwise, a link is sufficient, especially as it relates to IMDb, the most frequently consulted film and TV site. There is no need to import wholesale filmographies and lists of TV episodes, unless, of course, they are accompanied by original critical analyses. The Hitchcock Presents list is unique in that it is the only one of that size that has apparently been copied verbatim from IMDb (or one of four books that list the episodes) without any accompanying content. There is nothing similar for any other TV show. Romanspinner (talk) 07:10, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

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.