Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Saturday Night Live Number 466

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The result of the debate was DELETE. IceKarmaॐ 02:35, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Saturday Night Live Number 466

Out of hundreds upon hundreds of SNL episodes, this one (plus one other) has a page for some reason. Both episodes aren't especially notable, and both are now on AfD as well as the rather perplexing list of SNL episodes. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 02:50, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

  • Keep, television episode with millions of viewers. Kappa 03:15, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, per Kappa. Better that all SNL episodes should have articles than that any should be deleted. -- BD2412 talk 04:14, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Please stop making artciles about every imaginable episode of every imaginable TV show. / Peter Isotalo 16:03, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. per Peter. I know other shows have comprehensive coverage and I also suspect there's not been a definite policy developed, but I say no. Doesn't pass the ten-year test to my mind and we should avoid "notability transfer"--that SNL is notable does not make individual episodes so. Marskell 17:30, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete per User:Marskell. Plus, this has been tagged for cleanup since March this year. Pilatus 20:07, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. non-notable SNL episode Nohat 18:49, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. TheMadBaron 21:29, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment: We have articles on episodes from fiction shows because those are often restricted by a reasonable amount of episodes. I could start articles on episodes of the Nine O'Clock news or Blue Peter but since there's thousands of those, I really prefer not to. - Mgm|(talk) 22:07, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Strong keep. WP already has too many episode guide type articles to start deleting them. Comprehensive articles on SNL episodes would make a decent addition to Wikipedia. Let's not eat our young. — Phil Welch 23:27, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete plz. ♥purplefeltangel (talk) ♥ (Contributions) 23:50, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete This isn't like Buffy or the Simpsons, where ther are series and named episodes and some kind of continuity. I'm not happy that any individual epsiode has an article, but there is still a sliding scale of inclusionability (is that a word? It is now!). A episode of the six o'clock news wouldn't make it on here, an episode of buffy would, things fall in between. This, to my mind, is not suited towards inclusion. Sabine's Sunbird 23:58, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, or merge into a page on each season. - SimonP 00:25, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Saturday Night Live is definitely notable, but having an article about a particular show (except perhaps Ashlee Simpson's miming calamity) is going too far. It is like having an individual article about every David Letterman Show, and so on. Sjakkalle (Check!) 07:39, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Pointless Geocities-type detail. --Calton | Talk 20:58, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete The equation above, television episode with millions of viewers, would mean that every daily evening newscast from the networks, with their millions of viewers, would warrant an entry. That's obviously ridiculous. Dottore So 15:44, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. Re TheMadBaron's comment, it doesn't come under any point at Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information - or any other point on that page. ··gracefool |☺ 13:48, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
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