Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of American children's television series (Q–Z)

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The result was delete. Sandstein 17:16, 7 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

List of American children's television series (Q–Z)[edit]

These pages are unsourced lists that should really be done as categories, NOT as list pages. Zackmann08 (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 03:52, 30 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 04:16, 30 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep All – These qualify as articles per WP:NOTDUP relative to respective associated categories (e.g. Category:American children's television series, Category:Australian children's television series, etc). The articles are also functional navigational aids per WP:LISTPURP. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 04:22, 30 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Only one editor contributing and maintaining these pages; we have a category system for a reason, so that when these 'list of' pages are inevitably abandoned when the editor loses interest, the category system will keep things up to date and nicely organized. These lists (especially in the US) will never be comprehensive and complete. Nate • (chatter) 04:47, 2 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. While strictly speaking it's true that categories and lists are not automatically deemed to duplicate each other, but rather are allowed to coexist in some circumstances, it's also true that not every category needs to have a directly matching list of the same topics — and I'm not seeing any strong reason why these categories need their own standalone matching lists. Given that the categories are split out by nationality but a user might sometimes not actually know what nationality to check when looking for a particular show, a "one-stop shopping" list of all children's television series — List of children's television series, although admittedly it needs major reorganization too — is a valuable complement to the tree, but each individual national subcategory does not need its own standalone set of proprietary lists separate from the general one. Bearcat (talk) 22:29, 3 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Natg 19 (talk) 04:22, 7 September 2016 (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.