Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Spud Goodman Show

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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 No consensus/keep. References appear to exist, so hopefully someone is willing to properly source the article. — Scientizzle 17:22, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Spud Goodman Show

The Spud Goodman Show (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

This reads as a personal essay and opinion, not as an encyclopaedia article. There's not much to go on to improve it, only 65 unique Google hits, and it's the creator's only contribution to Wikipedia. Guy (Help!) 21:57, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Comment. It's a real television programme, and because of its age (1980s), internet-based sources are a lot less likely to exist.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 06:41, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
The article is poorly and subjectively written, but the series was rather pivotal in the Pacific Northwest. Hopefully someone can clean it up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 135.214.154.100 (talk) 00:28, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • DeleteWeak Keep. If it was pivotal, there should be newspaper articles on it, at the very least. Someone can recreate it when they find one. --Alvestrand (talk) 03:49, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
The program got regular newspaper coverage when it was on the air. Not many articles from the 1980s and early 90s are on line, however. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 135.214.154.100 (talk) 00:03, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
There's no requirement that a reference be online. If you can go to your local library and look at an article about the show, and write a wikipedia article based on that information, citing the newspaper (name, date and page) as source, that's a beautiful source reference. --Alvestrand (talk) 00:20, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
I found references to 9 newspaper articles mentioning the show from 1994 to 2004 (see article talk). I can only get the intro to the articles (I'm a cheapskate, so don't want to pay 3 dollars an article), but several do seem to be about the show, not just a passing reference. --Alvestrand (talk) 03:02, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete - no reliable sources, and notability is doubtful as it appears to be only of local interest. -- Whpq (talk) 18:03, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

As someone who used to work on the show, I re-wrote the article to try to make it more objective, but with the holidays upon us I won't have time to insert references for a few weeks. If that's too late to save it, well so be it. However, I don't understand how something of regional interest would fail to meet the notability requirement as there are tremendous numbers of articles here that cover regional and local topics that aren't flagged as offending that criterion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 135.214.154.100 (talk) 20:53, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Keep and improve. As per Alvestrand, references exist, but are not readily web-accessible. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 11:25, 11 December 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.