Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dismal's Paradox (second nomination)

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 MERGE with The Daily Show, and Redirect to that article. Reasoning as follows: there were many "X or Y" comments, but sorting them all out and putting the least-destructive option first, I get 6 Deletes and 4 Merge, counting a Redirect as basically a Delete. To my mind, that is not enough of a majority to by itself force a Delete. So then we look to the arguments. Do the Delete arguments win the day? In my opinion, they don't have enough of an edge by themselves to force a Delete. It's very close. There really isn't a consensus; my sense is that Merge is the best solution, with a Redirect since it was mentioned by a couple of commentors and costs little. Herostratus 17:52, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dismal's Paradox

This page was deleted pursuant to an earlier AfD. A DRV consensus concluded that the AfD was closed before sufficient time had been given to consider expansion or redirecting. It is worth noting that the DRV discussion showed support especially for the redirect alternative. This is a procedural relisting, so I abstain. Xoloz 15:21, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

• Merge/redirect to The Daily Show--TBCTaLk?!? 15:36, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to The Daily Show. Not enough to say about it to warrant its own article. Ydam 16:16, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
• Merge and Delete If we start adding every fake concept some show host has invented, Wikpedia will soon be full of unencyclopedic "facts". The information should be moved to The Daily Show, the redirect page deleted. Travelbird 16:36, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, this subject is exactly as notable as the article nominated for deletion below, The Elephant Statue, a statue that is present in a single episode of Thomas the Tank Engine. Non-notable. Tempshill 16:52, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment - It doesn't help to say that it's as notable as some other article that's up for deletion, let's look at this objectively here, in its own light.KV(Talk) 18:26, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep or Merge - I don't care too much about which way at this point. But I want to see the information kept in some manner. If this remains a redirect page with the merge, then if it is expanded upon enough to become something like Truthiness we can recreate the page.KV(Talk) 18:26, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
• Merge or redirect: either way its a small topic which can be added to another page. Zos 20:44, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete swiftly. Shenme 04:37, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. No merge, no redirect. Wikipedia is not a list of every joke ever made on the Daily Show. -- GWO
• Delete. I generally take what I consider to be an inclusionist approach to wikipedia, but this article is just too much. Unexpandable and nonnotable. -PlasmaDragon 22:31, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
• For the record, I deleted the page first time around because I felt the consensus was clear, and because there was no reason for the page to exist. I still feel that it should be deleted. DS 14:13, 4 July 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.