Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hocle and Stoty

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. Courcelles (talk) 01:43, 22 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hocle and Stoty[edit]

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I personally feel that this article fails to meet WP:GNG. I am also nominating the following related pages because they may also fail to meet WP:GNG:

The subject of these articles are short series where only a few installments were made, and are not as important or noteworthy as the longer shows that formed the meat of the Nick Jr. block. Electric Burst^{(Electron firings)}_(Zaps) 21:34, 31 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep:

Many Disney Junior short series (such as Go, Baby!, Tasty Time with ZeFronk, Where Is Warehouse Mouse?, Shanna's Show, Can You Teach My Alligator Manners?, Nina Needs to Go!, etc.) are about the same length (and run) as these programs. It does not matter how short the length of an episode is, they are still TV series and deserve to be noted.

You should note that they are not all "short series," they are short-form series, meaning that they are shorter than eleven minutes. A Pup Grows Up had twenty or so installments on the Sprint mobile application, but I can only find video clips of three. Same goes for Mighty Bug 5 and Hocle and Stoty, which I know had more episodes than what is recorded but since pages cannot include original research, only confirmed episode numbers are given.

For Hocle and Stoty specifically, its age has caused information on it to be hard to find. However, it was featured as a museum exhibit, which is certainly more than can be said for most TV shows.

One problem that might be making you feel that they fail notability tests is that most articles centered on them have since been deleted, as they are at least ten years old each; using the Wayback Machine may be helpful if you want more information on them.

Squiddaddy (talk) 23:16, 31 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:49, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —☮JAaron95 ^Talk 10:45, 7 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: Wikipedia has articles on TV shows that never even broadcast a single episode (see List of television series canceled before airing an episode), and seeing as these shows were broadcast on a huge channel like Nickelodeon and some (judging by Mighty Bug 5's references) even got their own NickJr.com pages, they are definitely notable. I could see some concern about a never-aired pilot, but these shows were aired. I don't understand how run-time comes into play whatsoever, it does not matter; that's like saying an 11-minute program is less notable than a 21-minute one. Derbundeskanzler (talk) 19:17, 11 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —☮JAaron95 ^Talk 11:45, 14 September 2015 (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.