Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Road to the 76th Academy Awards

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 delete. - Mailer Diablo 14:48, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Road to the 76th Academy Awards

Road to the 76th Academy Awards (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

This list is simply a list of films and film industry people who have won awards for the same year. It appears to be nothing but an indiscriminate collection of data. Slavlin 02:01, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

• Is "Road to the 76th Academy Awards" some sort of official list of awards shows, or is it just a title and compilation random Wikipedians came up with? If it's the latter, probably we should delete this for various obvious reasons. --W.marsh 02:14, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

I am also nominating the following related pages because they are also lists of awards won prior to the Academy Awards:

Road to the 79th Academy Awards (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Road to the 78th Academy Awards (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Road to the 77th Academy Awards (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Road to the 76th Academy Awards (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

There are MANY other Road to the... that I would nominate if my fingers could take it, but I cannot see how the list of awards won in the same year as the Academy Award is a useful or encyclopedic article. At best, the info should be included on each movie/director/actor page. Slavlin 02:17, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

• Not sure. Normally when I'm not sure I don't comment, but this time I really see both sides of the argument. I would imagine that these records matter to film junkies the way that regular-season standings matter to baseball fans. We do have articles on regular-season standings, but I don't know enough about film to judge the true relevance of these data. Without solid ground for deletion, I would submit a vote to keep by default. YechielMan 02:24, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

• Weak Delete: The above is a poor analogy, actually. Sports regular seasons have occurrences and information in of themselves. This, however, is a compilation of awards won elsewhere. Like others, I question the rationale for including some of those awards. They're potentially useful and informative lists, as such things go, but without some acceptable criteria for deciding which awards to include, this is a WP:NOR violation. Beyond that, what's this "Road to the Xth Academy Awards" nonsense? Is there a particular source for that term, or any reason to believe that the worldwide perception of each and every one of these awards is as minor-league trophies en route to the Oscars? I'd think much kindlier on List of 2006 major film awards etc. "These award presentations all lead to the 79th Academy Awards ceremony on February 25, 2007." Says who, exactly? RGTraynor 17:26, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

• Delete all. This is not an official compilation; there is no consensus among film fans about which critics' awards are worth paying attention to and which are not. I understand what the article creators meant by "Road to the ... Awards" but that is not a commonly used name for what this is about. I could understand listing awards won under the film or person's entry, or listing the winners given for a particular year in the article about the particular award, but this article is indiscriminate information. --Metropolitan90 02:33, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

• Rename if this is a list of every significant film awards from each year. But I'm not sure what the criteria is for these awards to be listed here, so if it's not based on anything other than the editor's choice, then delete. Croxley 05:37, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
• Delete all as a list of data not really suited to an encyclopedia. Information should be split and put on the relevant talk page of the movie/directors/actors/other relevant pages. Also, there's no way to make sure data should/shouldn't be put on the page- authors choice, as Croxley said? Or another sort of criteria? Really, it could be anything- CattleGirl ^{talk | sign!} 08:31, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
• Delete all. This is already covered in each of the movie's page. DTD_(speak)
• Delete all, totally unnecessary. If this kind of series articles continues, Wikipedia will be overloaded with a bunch of "Road to..." ones. Apple•_•w••o•_•r••m•_• 17:46, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
• Delete all. This appears to be nothing more than a compilation of awards with similar names given out by otherwise unrelated entities. The title is also somewhat misleading as the claim that various and sundry filmography awards handed out during the year constitue a "path" to the Academy Awards is POV. Arkyan • ^(talk) 18:18, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
• Delete All per arkyan. --JianLi 20:44, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
• Redirect to Academy Awards. BuickCenturyDriver (Honk, contribs, odometer) 22:45, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
• Redirect and merge or listify. I believe these are encyclopedic. They help explain the degree of consensus for the awards in a given year and are informative. TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio) 01:19, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
• Delete All per arkyan et al. Ford MF 07:10, 30 March 2007 (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.