Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of video artists

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 No consensus. Deathphoenix ʕ 15:49, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of video artists

As with the discussion about the list of photographers, this list is prone to link spam and adding redlinked video artists, notable & non-notable alike. I proposed to delete this page and instead create a 'Video Artists' category. I'll add the category to all people listed in the list. The people without articles will be dropped. Clubmarx | Talk 23:49, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

• Delete List of video artists and Support creation of [[Category:Video Artists]] ~Kylu (u|t) 02:07, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Redirect to fresh category:Video artists and populate since it's around now! ~Kylu (u|t) 05:35, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

• Redirect to Video art unless expanded and cleaned up. The currrent list is not useful and so it breaches the line of listcruft. However, this is a list, that could potentially be very useful, so I would oppose deletion. Falphin 03:01, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete and create category. Sandy 00:14, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

• Delete and create category:Video artists per nom. Oh! It's already created. Kimchi.sg 10:09, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

• Delete and support category creation. Steveo2 10:59, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete And support category creation. Beno1000 13:12, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete and create category. --cholmes75 15:27, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep unless a matching category is created. Otherwise the information becomes lost and must be regenerated. — RJH 16:43, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

  Comment: The category proposed in the nomination has already been created (category:Video artists), but contains only a pointer to the article being discussed here. No doubt it will be populated as necessary if this gets deleted. Kimchi.sg 01:34, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

• Comment — The only problem then is that a category doesn't capture all the red links. — RJH 17:04, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

• Keep as there are plenty of similar lists, e.g. List of painters by name and there's no reason to delete this in isolation. There needs to be a consistent policy to deal with them all. I suggest with arts lists, this is a matter for WikiProject Arts or WikiProject Visual arts. Tyrenius 17:49, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as potentially useful list and as precedent. Capitalistroadster 00:29, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as the definition seems fairly well defined. It would be useful to have a one line description of each artist with their entry. Kevin 01:39, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, list is encyclopaedic as we have other lists similar to this. --04:42, 20 May 2006 (UTC)—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Terence Ong (talk • contribs) .
• Delete the category category:Video artists has been populated from the list.--blue520 10:29, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete and make category. Agree with nominator: having the list makes it far more likely that floods of nn artists will be added on. Stifle (talk) 22:23, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Any redlinks should either be stubbed or removed, but any other video artist with a Wikipedia article must be notable, or they would not have an article at all. Kevin 01:51, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

• Conditional Keep Only keep if descriptions for the notable ones are added. See List of record producers for an example. --Osbus 22:55, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual art-related deletions. -- Clubmarx 23:17, 23 May 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.