Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Free and Easy

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. Sr13 04:25, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Free and Easy

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Almost certainly a hoax - no evidence that the programme was ever considered, let alone made, and a non-broadcast show would be non-notable Stephenb (Talk) 08:36, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

See also Dave Mash and Christopher Holton. I believe there's a consolidated hoaxing effort. Stephenb (Talk) 08:40, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

• Delete - Even if this is true, it never aired, and hence is not notable. There are thousands of shows that never make it to the air. --Hnsampat 10:53, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

It appears that the original article is sound, but that subsequent edits are just vandalism. The show is worthy of consideration, just because it wasn't broadcast does not mean it had no notable impact. The ideas and style may have had an impact on future productions, as the article clearly states. By the criteria that because it didn't air so had no impact is an incorrect one, by that method articles such as Operation Sledgehammer should also be deleted because 'they only happened on paper'. --PraiseTheLordy 12:56, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

• Delete: per nom, complete lack of sourcing, fails WP:NN. PraiseTheLordy's comments are pure speculation (quite aside from it being a single-user account whose sole contribution to Wikipedia is this AfD); no evidence that a forty-year old unaired pilot had any impact on, well, much of anything has been proffered. A Google search of "Free and Easy" + "Thames Television" on Google UK turns up only this article.  RGTraynor  13:33, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

• Please read the article -- please note the implausible plots, and the overuse of really bad puns (e.g. "Diana Might") -- please delete as hoax (also applies to assocaited articles) -- SockpuppetSamuelson 09:19, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
• Strong Delete as WP:Complete Bollocks. Parts of the text have been cut & pasted from http://www.thesweeney.info/ so we have a WP:Copyvio here as well. Eddie.willers 12:33, 15 June 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.