Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Take along Thomas & Friends

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 of the debate was NO CONSENSUS. Clearly, the numerics are here to delete. However, the original article's lead was more-or-less incomprehensible advertspeak. The new lead sentence is at least legible, if not really notability-establishing. Since there are other lists very much like this within this topic, and I'm concerned that the incomprehensibility of the pre-rewrite version may have influenced things (given that two editors, nom included call it an ad) I'd prefer to see a new nomination before deletion.-Splash^talk 00:27, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Take along Thomas & Friends

Advertisement. Originally I marked this for speedy as providing no context, but since that tag was removed, I'm putting this up for AFD. Delete. --DrTorstenHenning 14:59, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

• Delete per nomination. — FREAK OF NUR_xTURE (TALK) 16:44, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as spam. Mo0[talk] 20:42, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
• Week Keep. While this list needs an introduction and a removal of the commercials, it appears to be consistent with the way the other Thomas merchandise has been handled (see the Thomas Merchandise section under Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends). It is not the way I would do it, but in the absence of someone re-working all those lists, I don't see the harm in one more. -- JLaTondre 03:17, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Comment. Okay, since I suggested it, I did a rewrite to match the other Thomas pages. -- JLaTondre 03:40, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

• Comment. The whole point of this article is advertising a specific product. I would not waste any time on rephrasing the text, it is still an advertisement. Wikipedia is not a replacement for corporate websites or printed catalogues. Listing of available products and packages are utterly unencyclopedic. We should remove this garbage, and this is a point to start. The fact that there are other spam pages on Wikipedia should not prevent us from deleting this one. --DrTorstenHenning 12:03, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Listing the existence of a product is not spam in itself. Thomas is a notable childern's story, television series, and toy. Stating what toys are available is hardly advertising them. There's a lot worse listcruft on Wikipedia. If you think all the Thomas merchandise articles should go, then list them all. But if you're only going to list the one, then I have to argue consistency over deletion. -- JLaTondre 22:49, 14 December 2005 (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.