Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Big Block of Cheese Day

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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 Keep - Yomanganitalk 13:50, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Big Block of Cheese Day

This is an article about a fictional holiday that was apparently mentioned in a couple of episodes of The West Wing. I believe it is non-notable. The article looks quite long, but the majority of it is composed of information irrelevant to the subject at hand. -Big Smooth 23:04, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Comment: The article is not "well sourced"; several references are West Wing fan sites that are not reliable sources. In addition, the parts of the article that are sourced have nothing to do with "Big Block of Cheese Day"; instead, they incongruously expound on other events of the West Wing episodes in which the cheese day is mentioned. If those parts of the articles are of any value (and I'm not sure they are), they should be merged into "The Crackpots and These Women" and "Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail". -Big Smooth 23:28, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete, ref to minor detail of The West Wing. The majority of the article sems to have been lifted from somewhere else and is utterly irrelevant to the subject. Deizio talk 23:13, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete, non-notable American TV cruft. Lord Bob 03:07, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep This article is relevant to the series and represents a drastic change from the Sorkin years to the later years. Worthy of Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by StayinAnon (talk • contribs)
  • Weak keep. The article could use some tightening up so that it doesn't look as much like info that's only interesting to fans, but I think that there's enough here, that it's a valid addition to the articles about the television show West Wing. --Elonka 20:09, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment - I'm a big fan of The West Wing and I love these episodes and the concept of Blg Block of Cheese Day. Having said that, I'm leaning towards delete. While the concept is cool, I don't think there's enough to merit its own article. The only reliable source is the passing reference to the book Real Life at the White House (ISBN 0-415-92320-4), which is what Sorkin based the idea off of. But I don't think that's enough to carry the article. I'll see if I can find some interviews with Sorkin or someone else involved with the show that might give this article some verifability. - Lex 09:59, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep I like it. Timb0h 11:54, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Weak keep. There isn't another good place for it, and I've heard the term used a little outside of the West Wing context from time to time, so maybe it's gaining a little traction. 72.16.11.92 03:48, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
    • User's first edit. -Big Smooth 22:09, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Yanksox
  • Keep as interesting and informative. This is no less notable than Better Know A District or any other number of articles about elements of fiction. Why do people want to delete well written articles? How is this harmful? This is a great example of why I oppose deleting articles based solely on the subjective issue of notability. — Reinyday, 02:38, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment - Looks like we're going to keep this, so I've cleaned it up and merged the irrelevant information into the proper episode articles. -Big Smooth 22:07, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep per Reinyday --Arvedui 01:11, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep - When someone sees the mention of the day on the West Wing, they should be able to come to wikipedia and at least find something out about its actual history. --YbborT 04:25, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep - It is certainly more interesting, informative and better reference then 99% of the fancruft articles that are lying about. The factual historical reference and its popular culture tie in are worth some encyclopedic merit. Agne 00:03, 9 November 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.