Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Home Alone (The Dumping Ground)

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The result was redirect to The Dumping Ground (series 1). Stifle (talk) 17:33, 26 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Home Alone (The Dumping Ground)[edit]

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We have all this info on The Dumping Ground (series 1) and IMHO we don't need to duplicate what's already in great detail above. -
→Davey2010→→Talk to me!→ 16:54, 14 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I am also nominating the following related pages:

Liberty in the DG

Baby (The Dumping Ground)

S.O.S. (The Dumping Ground) ‎

-Davey2010 16:54, 14 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - many drama series would follow this format - with a separate article for each episode. As a watcher of the show, there is a huge amount of detail which could be attributed per episode as there are numerous points to the plots. It's just got to be included. I've decided to merge the series 1 & 2 pages into the episode list anyway. There could be a small amount of detail in the episode list page, but more detail on the individual pages. The only issue would be finding sources. Emirates123 (talk) 17:30, 14 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment, Surely it's better to have series' instead ?, Look at List of Waterloo Road episodes, List of Top Gear episodes, List of Misfits episodes, Not one episode article in sight, To sift through eps would take forever whereas all in series' is alot more helpful to the reader & quicker to find. →Davey2010→→Talk to me!→ 17:58, 14 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment, you'd argue that for shows like Waterloo Road, Top Gear, there isn't a large amount of happenings in the episodes which are really worth writing a large paragraph about anyway. Comedies (Only Fools and Horses for example) have individual articles. Yes, Dumping Ground isn't as popular, but with Only Fools, I find it easy to go through the page and find an episode article. Probably because the template is there and clear to read. I think with separate series articles, it will get a bit messy like it was before I re-directed them. I say brief description on the 'List of episodes' page and full synopsis on main episode page. I think with a bit of general clean-up (references, a screencap/image for the episode) it would work. Emirates123 (talk) 19:01, 14 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect all to The Dumping Ground (series 1) - I'm sorry, but this is just a common-or-garden TV show, and none of the episodes have any lasting, or external, notability. If an episode won a major award, or makes a significant contribution to culture, then we could look at those individual episodes having articles. At present, the episodes will fail WP:GNG as all of their coverage in WP:RS is primary. Simply put, this TV show is not big enough to justify individual episode articles either; comparing it to Only Fools and Horses is like comparing the Queen to a baby born a month ago in Birmingham, and, as such, that is an absolutely bizarre comparison to make. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 23:17, 14 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect all as above. Lack of secondary research indicates a lack of notability as per WP:GNG. DavidMichaelScott– talk 01:07, 15 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect all as above; as I said in an equivalent nom for Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of The Dumping Ground guest characters this entire series has a terrible mess of articles that should all be merged to the main one, though that one needs a whole lotta WP:TNT itself because of very fine inane detail (not for decision here, but seriously needed). Nate • (chatter) 20:18, 15 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:59, 17 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:59, 17 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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