Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of The Chaser's War On Everything 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 Gnan garra 07:28, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of The Chaser's War On Everything episodes[edit]

Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. This kind of info would be good for a Chaser Wikia, but not for Wikipedia Chuq (talk) 12:53, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Other shows have similar episode lists - and in fact there was a wikiproject dedicated to maintaining just this sort of article (now merged with WP:TV. It's a violation of WP:NPOV to pick and choose. This article could use a bit of expansion such as, say, a link to the main series article. 23skidoo 13:30, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Other shows have plotlines, characters and events. This article is a list of skits. WP:NPOV is about article content. If its a violation of WP:NPOV, then I guess you would approve of List of Sunrise episodes, List of Lateline episodes and List of Southern Cross Nightly News episodes? -- Chuq (talk) 14:03, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - As noted below, shows don't need to have plots in order to warrant episode lisitings. Which would you prefer: a single list article, or separate articles on each episode? 23skidoo 21:33, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    - I'd prefer notable sketches, and frequently recurring sketches, be included in the main article. And they are. (When that section gets too big, it can be split out.) -- Chuq (talk) 22:58, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      - The most pertinant guideline is WP:EPISODE Ga rr ie 04:11, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep. The topic is equivalent to a lot of pages in Category:Saturday Night Live. The bulletted lists strike me as hard to read and a little crufty, but that's salvagable. -Haikon 17:36, 19 April 2007 (UTC
- See Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions#What about article x?. Also, I don't see any articles in that category that directly compare to this one (ie. a list of all skits for every single episode)? They all seem to discuss summaries or highlights, which is how it should be. Obviously Saturday Night Live has more content as is has been running for much longer, hence their content is split over more articles. -- Chuq (talk) 22:58, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - I agree that right now the article isn't written in an encyclopedic tone. As I said, I think its salvagable. I only brought up Saturday Night Live because the main argument for deletion was that this is an indiscriminate collection of information. I noticed above that some one said, "we don't have an article on y, so we shouldn't have an article on this". I was just hopping on the Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions#What about article x? bandwagon. -Haikon 00:11, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Keep. While there are no plots as such, the show is tightly scripted, at least as to what they're going to do that week. Additionally there are certain themes that can play out over several episodes (Logies, Miners, AWB etc). I see your point, maybe there is a better way to do this, a better article might be List of the Chaser's War On Everything Stunts which would chronicle a more specific portion of the show, and one that the show is notorious for?? Jpk82 23:08, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The Chaser is a popular Australian television show and while it could do with a cleanup and sourcing, the article is worth keeping in its current form. Capitalistroadster 02:30, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment. I agree, it is very popular, I am a huge fan of it myself - obvious an article such as The Chaser's War On Everything should exist, but this doesn't mean the same holds true for this particular article. -- Chuq (talk) 05:27, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletions. -- Capitalistroadster 02:30, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, a list of skit names which does not explain what the skits actually were and provides no useful information either to people who watched the show or people wondering what it is about. The only way this would be a useful page is if each skit had about a half-paragraph outlining what it was about, which I doubt anyone is ever goin to do. Euryalus 02:53, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Recurring sketches should be liked and one-off sketches removed but the list seems in line with WP:EPISODES (given the Chaser's is a sketch show that is)Ga rr ie 04:09, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Running sketches could be included in the main article and the rest is more than likely unencyclopaedic.--Mattinbgn/^talk 04:50, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
keep The wiki needs this Crested Penguin 05:25, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, seems to meet WP:EPISODES. Lankiveil 01:12, 21 April 2007 (UTC).[reply]
Weak Keep, keeping it is ok but how about a "notable episodes" segment in the main article, and merged with well know controversies.Jasewase 09:58, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, The show is coming so popular now and if The Wedge can have an episode guide(List of The Wedge episodes). Surely a show that gets way more viewers in Australia and even more worldwide surely deserves it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by IAmTheCoinMan (talk • contribs) 22:01, 20 April 2007
- I'm not disagreeing that it is popular, I love the show - but this is about how appropriate this episode list article to Wikipedia, not the popularity of the show. Regarding List of The Wedge episodes, please see Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions#What about article x? - if this article ends up deleted I'll be nominating that one next. -- Chuq (talk) 23:36, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - Well if this article is deleted then people will just add all the stuff to the main article like they used to. They used to add every ad road test for example and that ruined the short description for that segment.

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