Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1900 in television

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The result of the debate was Consolidate with other pre-1925 years Mindspillage (spill yours?) 18:56, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 1900 in television

This page only lists one event. It is very unlikely that more events are going to be added. Also, see the List of years in television—years 1907, 1908, and 1923, which are also not rich with events, are listed there without a corresponding article. I do not see why 1900 should be different.Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 19:17, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. I changed my vote. Consolidate per BD2412's compromise proposal below amended as per my comment (i.e., use 1925 as the cut date).—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 19:28, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - Objective and verifiable. It may be seen as trivial, but WINP. Blackcats 19:42, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

  My main objection is that it breaks the flow of the years in television. All these articles are interlinked (e.g., 1988 would point to 1987 and 1989). 1900 cannot be interlinked this way. While Wikipedia is indeed not paper, I still don't see why 1900 should be kept, especially when 1907, 1908, and 1923 (not to mention all the years in between) are non-existent. I will have no objections to (re-)creating these articles when they have more content than current one-liners (remember, the information in the article will not be lost, but merely moved to the main list of years). I understand this reasoning of mine may still not be good enough for some voters to vote in favor of deletion, but I feel that I should let it be known. Thanks.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 20:29, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

• Compromise proposal - how about making Before 1910 in television, and sticking everything pre-1910 in it. There's not much on the technology side, but should be plenty of births. -- BD2412 ^talk 20:38, 2005 Jun 9 (UTC)

  I like it, but I would rather like see the Before 1925 in television article, as there is not really much information (besides, obviously, births) to be added.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 20:41, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

I thought about that, but my concern is that there would be too many births, as just about anyone who was significant on TV up to, say, the early 1960s was probably born before 1925. -- BD2412 ^talk 23:01, 2005 Jun 11 (UTC)

Right now there are no births listed at all. When the list grows to the point of being unmanageable (if it ever does), we will deal with that problem separately.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 21:01, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. This information is just a copy of what is already at list of 'years in television'#1900s. DoubleBlue (Talk) 01:06, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Consolidate all pre-1925 years articles into one, as suggested by Ezhiki. 23skidoo 01:26, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Consolidate per Ezhiki. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson 02:06, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as duplicate of information in another list. Vegaswikian 03:27, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Consolidate, again as per Ezhiki's Before 1925 in television suggestion. Angmering 10:26, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Consolidate per Ezhiki makes sense to me. — RJH 16:57, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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