Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of injuries, accidents, and mishaps on MythBusters

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 or merge I'm not going to merge it, because this was split off from the main Mythbusters article (probably because they don't want all this junk there) and no one has given me any guidance as to how to merge. People, PLEASE. If you want information kept, vote keep; if merging is a good idea, do it afterwards. There's a severe limit to how much merging administrators can do. In this case, I'm just going to leave the article as it is, and note that the consensus is that merging is a good idea. Mango juice^talk 18:00, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List of injuries, accidents, and mishaps on MythBusters[edit]

I've contributed to this list in the past, before it was split from the main article, but this is not really encyclopedic in nature, instead being more of a curiosity for fans. It's more suited to fansite, and is a potential magnet to all kinds of trivial additions. The small list of entries on the main article should suffice. Possible transwiki?--Drat (Talk) 10:23, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - total fanlistcruft. No opinion from me on transwiki. My Alt Account 10:28, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:NOT --Peta 13:21, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete unencyclopaedic. List a few of the more notable ones on the main article, that will cover the encyclopaedic purpose of discussing these injuries. Guy 13:25, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Merge It is a good listing of the times the guys have hurt themselves. And it demonstrates the "don't try this at home" part quite well. But it doesn't really need it's own page.--Marhawkman 23:31, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
If there are any particularly notable ones left here, merge them into MythBusters. Otherwise delete per nom. BryanG^(talk) 23:41, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I like the show, but the article is very dull. They hurt themselves, yes. I know. Gohst 11:29, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or merge Not papaer. :) Dlohcierekim 00:28, 14 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I think it's important enough. I was doing a review of television shows for class, and I found this article most useful. --Adam Wang 00:47, 14 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or Merge Great list. Don't see why this needs to be deleted. I-baLL 03:45, 14 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Merge Is good info, but doesn't need it's own article --paiste 04:20, 14 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or Merge, at least for now until a fansite copies the information. --Flip619 20:23, 14 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
MERGE: This is very entertaining. --ÆAUSSIEevilÆ 17:05, 15 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or Merge A good read and relevant to the show Darksoulz 18:20, 15 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Merge Relevant to the show (per Marhawkman "don't try at home"). Certainly doesn't need its own article. Markovich292 08:28, 16 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment. The entertainment value of the list is not important or even relevant in an encyclopedia. Something isn't worth keeping simply based on it being funny or entertaining alone, as those are opinions of individuals. Besides that, the very reason this article was created was so that the main article would no longer be dominated by the list. Note!: If anyone does take a copy of the article text for use on a site, please be sure to take the appropriate steps for using text from Wikipedia, as listed here.--Drat (Talk) 10:54, 16 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Merge: Deleting it completely would be a shame but I agree that it does not need its own article. Some of the more minor incidents could probably be removed in the merge process for the sake of conciseness. --Nebular110 21:45, 16 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Notable show, and this subarticle of the mythbusters page chronicles a repeated aspect of the show: injuries, accidents and mishaps. Autopilots 04:01, 17 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Merge the notable instances of injury/mishap to the appropriate places (the main article/the individual season articles). There's no need to list each and every time someone was hurt on the show. —LrdChaos (talk) 03:33, 18 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or Merge: I think this could deserve its own article, but if not, then more examples from this article be merged into the show's main article; the main article does not cover this aspect of the show enough imo. --Zidane2k1 09:00, 18 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Merge - remove the injuries from falling then merge into main article. 203.109.245.204 09:04, 18 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep It is relevant to the show but I think it's a tad too large to merge into the main Mythbuster article. 205.157.110.11 07:52, 20 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Not encyclopedic article. Glome83 12:48, 20 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Unencyclopedic listcruft. Prolog 15:46, 20 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

To the editors voting delete on the reasons of "unencyclopedic", it has been noted by others that a clear concept of the show is the "Don't try this at home" element. They bust the myths for our benefit because they are professionals and can (presumably) do it in a safer manner then your average curious Joe. This list makes clear the danger level involved in the making of this show. So what exactly is "unencyclopedic" about it? 205.157.110.11 07:33, 21 September 2006 (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.