Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/International airings of The A-Team

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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. Krimpet (talk) 06:40, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] International airings of The A-Team

International airings of The A-Team (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

Delete - as with similar articles for The Simpsons, Desperate Housewives, Smallville, The Amazing Race and others, Wikipedia is not a TV Guide. Otto4711 16:29, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Delete or merge with parent article. There's no need for this to be a seperate article, plus it is in breach of Wikipedia is not a directory--Cailil talk 17:00, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
  • We can't merge it back in, because the article was too long to begin with. Putting it back in will only create more problems. - BillCJ 21:07, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. This is its own article because the A-Team article was getting too large. Think of it as a "daughter article" (and there are thousands of these on Wikipedia). If this was a stand-alone article, then I would vote delete, but this is a sub-article of The A-Team, providing additional information for readers if they indeed choose to look at it. (Note: I have contributed to this article.) →EdGl 17:45, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment - the other articles noted above, which were deleted, also were sub-articles of their respective articles. Otto4711 18:25, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
  • This article should be judged on its own merits, and not be deleted just because others like it were deleted. - BillCJ 21:07, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
  • I agree 100% that this article should be judged on its own merits. Specifically it should be judged on its merits as a direct violation of WP:NOT, which states in relevent part that Wikipedia is not for "Directories, directory entries, TV/Radio Guides, or a resource for conducting business." Otto4711 21:16, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Trivia fork, not needed on here. Biggspowd 19:48, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
    • So what are we allowed to fork? Before long, the only things left on main pages that get too long will be the "trivial" items, and then you'll want those deleted too! Items such as these are able to stand on their own from the main page, and should be allowed to do so wthout fear of a frivolous AfD every few months. - BillCJ 21:07, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge with List of The A-Team episodes. It makes most sense there. (Emperor 20:54, 6 May 2007 (UTC))
    • Shhhhh! They'll want to delete that one too! - BillCJ 21:07, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep - per Ed. In addition, AfDs such as this are a bicycle shed argument, wasting experinced editors' profitable time on nonsense, when it could be spent on real Wiki problems such as persitant vandalism, or on actually impoving articles. - BillCJ 21:07, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Responses like yours are rooted in WP:ILIKEIT as opposed to any actual policy or guideline, are a failure to assume good faith and generally cause those who make them come off poorly. Articles that are flat out violations of Wikipedia policy, as this one is, are certainly not a waste of the time of editors who believe that Wikipedia policies should be adhered to regardless ofhow much we might like watching the A-Team in Sumatra or wherever. Otto4711 21:19, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
  • I have yet to be involved in an AfD of a "trivia" article that first began as a PROD or some other effort at communication with the editors of the article. I find that lack of good faith on the part of those editors troubling. Yes, every editor has the right to AfD an article he feels doesn't belong on Wiki, but a litte common courtesy to hard-working contributors on Wiki would be nice every once in a while. Oh, in the interst of truth, a newbie did file a PROD on a trivia article I was involved in, but I guess he was to new to be rude yet. I am sure by pointing this out I am voilating a guideline somewhere, so please spare me the alphabet soup, as I am choosing to ignore said guideline. - BillCJ 20:19, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

assume good faith is the fact that those opposing trivia article seem to feel that they are not

  • Delete. Wikipedia is not TV Guide. Even if you included the networks it was historically on (ie: it was first run in Canada on CTV, iirc), there still isn't anything of encyclopedic value here. Resolute 05:04, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge into A-Team 132.205.44.134 22:30, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment Wikipedia is supposed to be global. However, as it stands the list is too trivial. A truly great Wikipedia article would be Global critical reception of the A-Team. It would require a lot of work, but the current article could be a starting point. --h2g2bob (talk) 13:52, 8 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.