Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Deal or No Deal Special shows

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 delete. Wizardman 16:01, 30 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

List of Deal or No Deal Special shows[edit]

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Overly-detailed list of episodes for a game show. One source is dead link; two other sources appear to be personal blogs/fansites not affiliated with the production of the TV program.

Episode descriptions with narrative description read like fancruft and contain WP:WEASEL and WP:EDITORIAL info. This is not a television series with fictional plot synopses that should be chronicled in an article, and the specific details of results from a television game show episode do not meet WP:GNG.

Related deletion discussions of episode listings for game shows:

AldezD (talk) 13:49, 10 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. AldezD (talk) 13:52, 10 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:13, 10 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This looks different than a straight episode list, as these were apparently different versions of the show, as the descriptions for each appears to indicate. So I think this might be a candidate for cleanup, to prune the tables of results for each episode, rather than outright deletion. postdlf (talk) 17:18, 10 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- These are normal episodes which aired "theme weeks" or "theme episodes" with variations to the standard rules. These are not entirely separate series or runs of Deal or No Deal. AldezD (talk) 17:40, 10 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  - Yes, "different versions." If the structure or presentation of the show itself changed, that's worth noting as a history of the over-all show, and that's a very different thing than episode-by-episode results of the same exact contest. So I'd be interested to see what we're left with after this has been trimmed and condensed of everything else. It might then be small enough to merge somewhere, might not. postdlf (talk) 17:44, 10 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    - But these aren't "different versions". This is the same Deal or No Deal show. These descriptions detail episodes similar to when Wheel of Fortune features three teams of two players each rather than three individual contestants, or a special week of episodes of The Price Is Right in which Plinko offered a growing jackpot each day. It's still the same show, but happened to feature a one-off contest or special week of episodes. The Price Is Right (U.S. game show) and The New Price Is Right (1994 game show) are "different versions"; List of Deal or No Deal Special shows is merely a list of special "themed" or "contest" episodes of the program Deal or No Deal (Australian game show), and special episodes of a television show do not meet WP:GNG. AldezD (talk) 18:19, 10 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently I'm the one who created this page (I really don't remember doing that), probably solely to get all this info off the main Deal or No Deal article page. I can tell you right now I have no opinion on what is done with it :) Bobliveson (talk) 15:08, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:05, 18 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Merge back to the main article anything that is significantly notable and redirect. Stifle (talk) 14:31, 20 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Excessive detail, and I really can't see that any of the content in the tables is suitable for merging. Results of an individual episode of a game show are seldomly notable, and rarely covered in any independent source except for maybe fansites. Top-prize winners may sometimes get media coverage and merit mention in the main article, but I cannot see that this is the case here. Sjakkalle (Check!) 12:17, 30 July 2013 (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.