Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of television commercials

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 of the debate was delete. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 03:14, 23 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List of television commercials[edit]

Way too many to list, one of those lists that could last for ever and can become unsalvagle, listcruft Delete Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 03:47, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - This is only the most notable TV commercials. Perhaps a better title would be List of popular television advertisements or something like that. - Richardcavell 03:49, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom; and keep it to "only the most notable" how? This is going to be a magnet for accretion. RGTraynor 14:08, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Keep This is the sort of thing where a web based encyclopedia can really trump a paper based one. Mass media studies is a legit field. If the article gets unwieldy we'll edit it not delete it.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Jbolden1517 (talk • contribs)
Question - What are the criteria for inclusion, aside for the vague "notable".... awards? Attention in the popular media? Without a set guideline, as per Jaranda, this is an impossible list to keep.... the title lends itself to inclusion of any tv ad. —ERcheck @ 04:38, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment This list is totally unstructured. Advertising campaigns have regional variations, are time-bound and a lot are region/market-specific. If I was researching this topic, I wouldn't want to have to wade through a huge list of irrelevant adverts to find the few for which I was looking. If this can't be structured by date/region/subject or other criteria then it should be deleted, as it will quickly grow to be useless. (aeropagitica) (talk) 06:22, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Strong delete. Either this article focuses only one the most notable, what, ten or fifteen adverts of all time from each of the 200 countries around the world, in which case it's POV, or it lists all of them, in which case it's an indiscriminate collection of information. Either way, it dies now. Vizjim 09:00, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete – "popular" and "notable" are very vague terms when applied to television commercials, it would certainly be impossible to list all commercials in such a list, and such a list would need to be much more organised than this – Gurch 11:28, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Vizjim and Gurch, couldn't have said it better myself. Metros232 11:32, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Categorise -- GWO
Delete categories, people. This is a practically unlimited list. Just zis Guy you know? 12:24, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete listcruft/POV. Paddles 12:38, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep As long as it doesn't attempt to be a list of every commercial ever. If it's only listing notable ads especially mostly just those that already have wiki entries then I don't have a problem with it Ydam 13:19, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete the possibilities for inclusion are far too broad. List is POV as to what is "notable". ~~ Brother William 13:31, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete this seems an indiscriminate collection of information, one of the things that wikipedia is WP:NOT Bucketsofg✐ 14:22, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sort of useful list, actually. Shows which tv adverts we have articles on. Could be converted to a category, if you like. Kim Bruning 14:29, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I agree a category is better for these types of articles. Thanks Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 15:05, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Television commercials, already been created Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 19:36, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I think it would be a good idea to change the title of this article to reflect that it is not intended to be a complete list of all TV commercials ever made. It is definitely worthwhile to keep a list of notable commercials as people studying mass media would find this very useful. Amazinglarry 15:11, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as totally subjective and unmaintainable listcruft. -- stubblyh ea d | ^T/_c 16:49, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete --- OOZ662 18:31, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I agree with the users above--Adrift* 19:00, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Too broad. --Strothra 19:53, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete A category would be better. -- Malber (talk • contribs) 20:09, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Not just is it an unmaintainable list, but a category for TV commercials already exists! That's more than enough for me to vote to kill this thing. -- Kicking222 23:49, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete listcruft, the topic is so broad that the article could be infinately large.--Jersey Devil 00:42, 19 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Ridiculous list as would get very long very quickly and is unmaintainable. Bwithh 01:34, 19 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, please. Unmaintainable. ergot 02:27, 19 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Unlike some lists, this subject is better served by a category. In addition, who is it up to to decide if a commercial is 'popular and notable', as there is no magical fairy of NPOV-ness around to do so. -- saberwyn 08:21, 19 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Keep All the commercials were bought and paid for by rich corporations and were shown to millions of people. Wikipedia exists to spread information from the mainstream media. You can't get any more mainstream than this! The list should be expanded! Where are the Mentos commericals? Where are the Tab cola commercials? If the mod deletes this then at least merge the info somewhere else.--AirportTerminal 13:11, 19 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- The fundamental flaw in the above reasoning, AirportTerminal, lies here: Wikipedia exists to spread information from the mainstream media. Why do you believe this? It is not true. —Encephalon 04:36, 20 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Good grief. —Encephalon 04:31, 20 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Deleteme42 20:26, 20 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, as there are probably millions of TV adverts which could be thought of as "notable". It's just not possible to list them all. In addition, a notable commercial to one person could mean nothing to another person; it's a matter of opinion. Andrew 15:38, 22 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Strong delete or move to List of notable television commercials; otherwise this page will have nearly an infinite length. M1ss1ontomars2k4 | T | C | @ 01:18, 23 May 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.