Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/WCAU Personalities

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. Mangojuice^talk 15:55, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WCAU Personalities

Was large and hard to manage, pared it down to current list, but it is now redundant with WCAU. Most other TV stations have lists of their personalities on the main page and I basically did this and created the individual articles. Pressure Thirteen 01:39, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

• Delete You seemed to have come up with an elegant solution and one that gives some unity to the televison articles! It makes more sense if everyone gets the article on the station page and has links to the individual bios. The old page was a bit clunky to maintain! Kramden4700 02:16, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Per above Wrath of Roth 15:25, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
• Note This AfD is related to the AfDs for WPVI-TV Personalities and KYW-TV Personalities. Tinlinkin 10:18, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and revert/merge non-notable biographies See WPVI-TV Personalities. Here is a sample version of the WCAU Personalities page before it was divided. Tinlinkin 10:30, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and revert/merge non-notable biographies as per above Tazz765 16:08, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Here is a suggestion: Eliminate this article, as "Personalities" really is an inaccurate description and degrades the fact they the people are journalists and not entertainers, create two new pages with capsule bios, WCAU-TV Anchors and WCAU-TV Reporters while keeping the list on the main WCAU page to have a one stop place with the list of former station employees in the full context of the station article. This would be a more accurate categorization of the talent instead of the generic and inaccurate "Personalities". A side benefit is the pages would be smaller and make vandalism easier to spot. Hell', I'll even do it. Kramden4700 23:34, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
• My inclination is to delete all of the bios that don't assert encyclopedic merit; failing that, merge them into articles such as those suggested above by Kramden4700 and delete this article. Individual reporters are usually of questionable notability; I only found this AfD after having deleted a few of their articles without being aware that they were part of a larger picture (as a side note, if consensus leads to a merge and you need my help with undeletions, drop me a line and I'll be glad to do what I can). Tijuana Brass^¡Épa! 07:09, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete I don't see how this could be considered an encyclopedic topic. A handful (and a very small handful) of people on that list have some very limited notability. The rest are just TV-cruft and many of the articles listed there would be candidates for speedy deletion. Pascal.Tesson 07:46, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete List-cruft and TV-cruft. Pressure Thirteen also created all sorts of articles about these non-notables which will be send for speedy deletion per CSD-A7. Buckner 1986 14:23, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete it and any other similar TV-cruft. Crabapplecove 01:56, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above. Cabled Substitution 00:38, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete it per above. Rekarb Bob 15:24, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Do not merge, do not collect $200. Ifnord 15:34, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Crufty, very crufty. Adam 1212 02:26, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above, no merge either. Something must be done about all these non-notable local TV personality articles. I know, delete them all. Cheesehead 1980 14:33, 28 July 2006 (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.