Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of LEXX 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The result of the debate was keep, nomination withdrawn. — Rebelguys2 ^talk 17:15, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of LEXX episodes

I loved this show dearly, having watched every episode aired on the SciFi Channel in the U.S. I even have autographed pictures of two major cast members, Patricia Zentilli and Eva Habermann. In spite of all this, I must say that this article is unencyclopedic fancruft and listcruft and needs to go. I can't think of a single reason to save it, and the existing systemic bias towards science fiction fandom means that we should hold articles on science fiction topics to a very high standard. Brian G. Crawford 00:13, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. I can't think of a single reason why we should eliminate a list of verifiable episodes from an important TV show. It is standard here for so many shows such as the +200 lists found in Category:Lists of television series episodes or more specific categories such as Category:Star Trek episode lists or Category:Lists of Law & Order episodes by season. -- JJay 01:35, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
• Merge all of the episode articles into this article, as they are fairly short, and unlink all of the episode titles. -- Kjkolb 01:41, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
• Strong keep, and enhance as per JJay. As well: if the nominator at all perused a related talk page regarding the series (which, despite stated interest, neither article of which said editor has contributed to) and paid as much attention to the content therein as to the encyclopedic standards one wishes to uphold, said Wikipedian would realise that there have been discussions/plans to augment this list and work towards developing articles for each ep. Start your campaign to nix fancruft et al. elsewhere. E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 02:04, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Plenty of precedent for this sort of article. 23skidoo 02:09, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
• Strong keep There is a precedent to keep such episode lists as they have encyclopedic value. Bobby1011 02:12, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Jjay. No different than List of The Colbert Report episodes, or any other such article. -LtNOWIS 03:09, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep for the time being. My preference would be to have a master list in the main article and a page for each season with short episode summaries for that season (the ultra detailed scene-by-scene summaries for some shows goes too far I think.) There seems to be an active discussion on LEXX about how to deal with episodes so lets give them a chance to sort it out.Thatcher131 03:14, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per above, list of episodes from a notable TV show --TBC^{??? ??? ???} 07:06, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Thatcher, Bobby and JJay. JoshuaZ 03:19, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. We have a List of Family Guy episodes, a List of Simpsons episodes, List of South Park episodes... Well, you get the picture. And they are useful. GrandmasterkaImage:Blend Flag.jpg^{Impart wisdom} 03:57, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, if we have List of Barney & Friends episodes and videos and other things of TV shows. This should be a keep, this shows a form of biasness here. --Terence Ong 05:05, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Wikipedia does this sort of thing and it isn't going to change, so we might as well stack up the keep votes to discourage similar nominations. CalJW 05:48, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - Although I don't have high hopes for most of these ever getting filled out. Cyde Weys 08:07, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Systemic bias is not corrected by deletion of content and the quality of the encyclopedia is not diminished by its existence. kotepho 08:46, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as there is precedence for this stuff, no matter how much it is disliked. Maybe there should be some policy created on this. --Midnighttonight 09:39, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep on clear precedent and even original intent of Wikipedia. Samaritan 10:39, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

• Keep I am going to do the work on the episode guide, as I'm watching the series currently. I can see both sides of the argument. I've looked at the Southpark guide, which is extensive and bulky, but a different form to Star Trek. The problem I've got is that not a lot needs to be said about some episodes of Lexx... yet people talk extensively about other crappy shows. I have no idea how to judge this, as Wiki is expanding rapidly, and soon avi files will end up in here as well. We're obviously devoting more space to Buffy than Shakespeare. What can you say? Bipedia 12:58, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per JJay. --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 14:16, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep per above and merge episode articles into this article. --JiFish(^Talk/_Contrib) 14:38, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
• Nomination withdrawn. Since there's a consensus on keeping this, there's no reason to keep this in AfD. Apparently, presence in pop culture and mass media guarantees presence in Wikipedia. Brian G. Crawford 16:12, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

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.