Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gameshow Marathon show summaries

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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 delete. (ESkog)(Talk) 20:07, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gameshow Marathon show summaries

Overly long game show fancruft. The specials themselves are barely notable and were low-rated. Just goes into every detail about every show and every move, and WP is not an indiscriminate collection of information Burgwerworldz 03:40, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Wow again. Does this guy know his userpage is public, or are rasslin' and eating boogers the cool things in his world? Opabinia regalis 06:30, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Strong Keep I'm pretty sure that this has got to be an important subject for many many people and its certainly a verifiable part of televison history and Jimbo Wales says that the mission of Wikipedia is to be the sum of all human knowledge, and we should all support that goal. This article's not cruft, it's just very detailed which took a lot of effort and makes it a good quality article and the article is doing no harm, so what's the point of deleting this? Delete as per nom Bwithh 07:13, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. BryanG(talk) 07:35, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
  • No opinion. I am here to explain what I did and also to respond to "die Baumfabrik."
    • I merely cut and paste part of the old Gameshow Marathon page to the page you're seeing now because some of my fellow Wikipedians suggested that this be done. However, it now appears that someone else doesn't want this page to appear at all. If you insist that the page remain on the Wikipedia server, I suggest that whoever originally created the page put the information on his/her own user page. I understand that those pages are protected from blanking, so at the very least it should be OK. Speaking of my user page, think of it as a two-part page:
      • The first part merely reflects what pages would look like if some fictitious people, places, or concepts that I have made up existed and had their own pages on Wikipedia. I even disclose that these are "fakeout" pages on my edit page. Ideally, I would have created the pages as actual entries, printed them out, and then blanked them out to protect the integrity of Wikipedia as a whole. But the pages are not "WYSIWYG"; in other words, they will look different on the printed page. Besides, the anti-vandalism teams are out in force and are enforcing the regulations. Also, Wikipedia encourages the use of user pages as sandboxes if needed, and that's what I am doing.
      • The second part is my imagination really running wild. It consists of "corrected" names and the best of wrong answers and puzzles from such shows as Now You See It and You Don't Know Jack. If these "answers" are Wikipedia entries, even better! Maybe my user page should have more facts in them, but as long as I don't go too far with it, I should be OK. (For the record, "rasslin'" is OK to me, but eating boogers aren't. I'm just reporting it.) Nevertheless, I will acknowledge that anyone can see these pages and apologize to anyone who has been offended. Thank you for your attention.--Desmond Hobson 07:52, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Hack Down and Replace: well, my take on it is, yes, there's waaaaay too much there. but that doesn't mean it all disappears. i feel a very short, to-the-point summary could be made for each game, and then it could go back into the original gameshow marathon article. you don't need to list every celeb's choice made in every game, every single response, and every single witticism uttered, but you could say "so-and-so won such-and-such with a score of blankety-blank, over blah blah blah with yada yada." you could take every episode down to an entire paragraph, then just plug it back in. so... i guess this is a vote for delete, but on the terms that the information is way summarized and put back. Art Begotti 10:38, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete. Survey says: gamecruft! This seems more like an indiscriminate collection of information than an expansion which adds value to the article on Gameshow Marathon. --Kinu t/c 03:29, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per above. Zos 04:17, 10 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.