Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Idol Gives Back

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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. Sr13 09:05, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Idol Gives Back

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Un-sourded American Idol episode. Delete, merge and re-direct to American Idol 6. Dalejenkins 16:01, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

  • Reduce and merge. As I understand it, it's not just a single episode but an ongoing thing that is supposed to come back next season (sort of like having a regular old telethon episode each season). If that's indeed the case, it might warrant a separate article in the future but right now, it's not really much more than an extra-long episode with a charity theme (it's a very nice idea; I'm just talking notability here). The celebrity list could probably go since it doesn't really add too much to the article and is a bit triviaish anyway. -- Seed 2.0 17:52, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment - in future, please add new nominations to the bottom of the list as specified in the AFD process. Otto4711 22:38, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge per Seed 2.0. Tim.bounceback(review me! | talk | contribs | ubxen) 00:28, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Fairly large philanthropy event. --Infrangible 01:13, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Second that keep. It was a charity event and educated millions of people about how hard poverty has struck our world through a popular culture event. Thank you, Lazylaces (Talk to me 01:15, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep per above. There's quite a bit to say about it. I'm not totally opposed to a merge, but I think the article could stand on its own. Zagalejo 03:25, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep The main American Idol article, and that for season 6 are both quite long as it is, hence the split in the first place. This was a significant charity event raising tens of millions of dollars.Seaphoto 05:57, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep per plenty of sources, including coverage in major newspapers; also as a notable charity event. Calwatch 07:13, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. This is a highly notable charity, do not merge with American Idol 6 which it has little to do with other than using it as a platform to raise funds. Burntsauce 17:43, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep I was the one who did the original splitting off. The purpose was to reduce clutter at the AI6 page, especially since we have the extremely bloated finale to go yet. I really wish people would wait to put these up for deletion until some time has passed. --WoohookittyWoohoo! 07:12, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
    • And btw, it wasn't unsourced. It was just missing the references section. Fixed. --WoohookittyWoohoo! 07:21, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep It's very much sourced, as there was much coverage of it, and I think it was a notable charity event. There's too much information to merge wit American Idol 6. — The Last User Name Ever (talk) 16:28, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep but then have the summary of it in it's own section in the American Idol (season 6) article, as it currently is. Wikipedians tried to keep it in the AI6 article, but there just came to be too much information, and it deserves it's own article at this point. - hmwithtalk 14:01, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete or merge into the season's article. Gamaliel (Orwellian Cyber hell master) 23:36, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
Reason(s)? Zagalejo 00:48, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep for reasons already listed above (will probably be recurring, clutters AI6 article, etc.). MissMJ 02:31, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. While I don't like the argument above that it will "probably be recurring", as that is complete unfounded speculation, the charity and episode are still notable enough in their own right to warrant their own article. News sources ran articles on various aspects of this episode independent of their normal "Idol" coverage (for example [1]). --DropDeadGorgias (talk) 15:54, 17 May 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.