Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Judge Judy episodes

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The result was delete. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 14:13, 1 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

List of Judge Judy episodes[edit]

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A list of largely non-notable episodes. We wouldn't accept a list of all frontpage headlines of some tabloid (a list of some notable ones is something else), so why would a list of all 5000+ titles of Judge Judy episodes be an acceptable list? It is verifiable, just like these tabloid headlines, but we need more than verifiability alone to have a good article or list subject. That this would otherwise bloat the main article (which was given as a reason to remove the prod) is not an argument, there wouldn't be a good reason to include this in the main article either (again, compare to articles on newspapers, we wouldn't have "headlines from 1990 to 2000" as a separate list or in the main article).

If there are notable episodes, then a list of those, with sourcing showing individual notability, can of course be created. But this is a meaningless dump of titles. Fram (talk) 14:00, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. Fram (talk) 14:00, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete Absolutely not. Daily syndicated series episode lists should not be a thing here, especially when the only thing that can likely source it is the show's listings loglines. Nate • (chatter) 14:46, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Unlike a sitcom or a fictional series, there will be no developments of note from one show to the next; unlike a talk show, there aren't even notable guests to report. BD2412 T 16:46, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Per WP:INDISCRIMINATE. -Indy beetle (talk) 23:17, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete For most shows, we can have a list of episodes because it is sufficiently short and verifiable to be encyclopedic. This is not true for shows like Judge Judy that air new episodes on a daily basis. The article is already woefully incomplete as is; the overview omits seasons 1–5, but lists 125 episodes aired so far during the current season. Season 23 alone aired 260 episodes over the course of its run; for comparison, SpongeBob SquarePants has aired 265 episodes over 13 seasons, at time of writing. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 02:49, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Verdict in favor of the plaintiff. Even soap operas don't have such lists, and they have continuity. Clarityfiend (talk) 03:58, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. All completely non notable episodes and seasons. Ajf773 (talk) 08:50, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Wikipedia is not meant to be an indiscriminate collection of all knowledge.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:16, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. The deletion rationale seems to be mostly based on the false premise that all of the episodes in an episode list have to be individually notable for the list to be allowed here, which is obviously not the case. I'm not entirely sure of how notability of an episode list as a whole is determined, so I won't do a "Keep" or "Delete" vote here myself, but whether deletion is appropriate or not in this case, the presented reasoning wouldn't be the reason why. 75.88.83.193 (talk) 21:47, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Whoops, I had thought I was logged in. 75.88.83.193 (talk) 21:48, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This being said, I do think the article should at least be moved into draftspace for now even if it was "Kept." It doesn't make sense to call it a list of episodes of the show in general when all it really lists is one season. 75.88.83.193 (talk) 21:54, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comment The issue overall is that this entire list is of episode titles nobody cares about and which aren't going to describe the case simply (or else we'd be on like "Property Theft Case MDCCLXXXV" if they were that simply-described). Taping and theming means cases are never presented in chronological order, and outside the kind of folks that over-care about cartoons, nobody is logging every episode of a court show. This is too much information and if it belongs anywhere, it should be on Wikia. Nate • (chatter) 02:18, 27 March 2021 (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.