Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of The Colbys 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 was Keep. Tyrenius 03:05, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of The Colbys episodes[edit]

Delete Wikipedia is not a TV guide. ListcruftAlanSmith17 12:01, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep as a reasonable entry in the well-established structure of lists of television episodes. See WP:EPISODE. Otto4711 12:12, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as above; this list is neither cruft nor anything like a TV Guide-style listing, this nom is misguided. TAnthony 13:50, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film and TV-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 14:34, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as there is clear precedent for articles such as this instead of trying to roll this information into the main article (and far beyond the scope of WP:OTHERCRAPEXISTS). 23skidoo 01:00, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Merge with The Colbys, an article that is not so lengthy that it can't acommodate the episode list. Oddly, The Colbys does not include an episode list, and List of The Colbys episodes does not include a statement about what The Colbys was. Let's join the two. Mandsford 02:29, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You have a point about the article size, and I prefer merging to deletion, but articles aren't meant to incorporate lists (especially this long); doing so would be counterproductive to the article ever improving in quality/status. And for the record, most episode lists don't have much in the way of describing the parent series, they just provide the appropriate link back (assuming most readers will have arrived there from the main article). TAnthony 04:54, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:EPISODE "Such pages must still be notable, and contain out-of-universe context, and not merely be a list of episode titles or cast and crew" AlanSmith17 11:21, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, notability, the never-ending struggle! I would argue that the episodes are notable because the show itself is, and all the episode lists I can think of don't contain much more info than this (out-of-universe context?! It's a LIST). There are airdates listed, and I will actually put in short episode summaries when I have a little time and I imagine that will make the list more acceptable. TAnthony 17:08, 21 June 2007 (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.