Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Married... with Children cast members

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The result was merge to List of characters in Married... with Children. T. Canens (talk) 02:47, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

List of Married... with Children cast members

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Delete per WP:NOT#Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. This is merely a listing of actors who have portrayed recurring cast members or others who have made guest appearances on the show. Main characters are already discussed in List of characters in Married... with Children and Married... with Children#Cast and characters. Sottolacqua (talk) 21:27, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - while I don't have a strong opinion on this particular cast list, it is part of an enormous category structure. It doesn't make sense to discuss this one list in isolation. I'm not convinced that this meets the criteria of WP:NOT either. A better way to work on these lists would be to create a centralized discussion and build consensus about whether they're worthwhile and perhaps setting some inclusion criteria (limiting them to regular and recurring cast members). Are You The Cow Of Pain? (talk) 22:52, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Simply because it's not indiscriminate. And part of an already established structure of cast member articles. Lugnuts (talk) 06:53, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Nom's criteria for deletion is flawed because the list isn't indiscrimate. The article doesn't sit quite right but the onus is on the nom to demonstrate what is wrong with the article rather than leaving afd participants guessing. Szzuk (talk) 07:55, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Delete It is an indiscriminate list because it has no information on it to discriminate between one cast member and the next, and for many of these, one would be hard pressed to find mention of their guest appearance on the sitcom within their own articles. There's a pseudo-sophisticated statement in there that we should be aware that "this list should be restricted to those actors who were significant or recurring characters". Kind of a surprise, even considering that this is from 2007, when mediocre work like this was the standard. For those wondering why anyone ever thought we would need a list, in alphabetical order, of people who appeared on the show, I gather from the history that there was a category that was about to be deleted. Only a weak delete, because it would be easy to rescue this one with such things as — DUH — the name of the character played by each of the entries. There's this thing called imdb.com that would help. No reason that this has to be a piece of crap. Mandsford 12:54, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:18, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:18, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge into List of characters in Married... with Children - adding in new information. Two lists are not needed, but save the edit history. Bearian (talk) 22:43, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge as above. This would also serve the aim of restricting it to main or significant cast members and weeding out any on-screen-for-two-minutes cameos or minor parts. Gwinva (talk) 06:44, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per Bearian. A single list is sufficient. Jujutacular ^T · C 21:22, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per Bearian. Jason Harvestdancer | Talk to me 22:35, 15 June 2010 (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.