Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/WCBS-TV News Team

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 keep but move to more standard name. W.marsh 17:06, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WCBS-TV News Team

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For the same reasons I nominated both WABC-TV News Team and WNBC news team, which were WP:CRUFT and questionable notability to the Wikipedia community as a whole. This information was previously in the main WCBS-TV article and could be re-merged into it as well, but a stand-alone page should not exist. Many of the bios that are linked within this article should be looked at as well for WP:NN compliance. Rollosmokes 16:00, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

• Keep The programs themselves are notable, and the size and scope of these articles does not lend them to merger with the parent articles. Furthermore, any AfD that uses the word "cruft", or any form thereof as an excuse for deletion ought to be retained for that reason alone. Alansohn 18:55, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
• Keep An excellent finding source for linking to individual biographies, especially when all you know is he is that fat guy that does the weather. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 21:24, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. Informative. "Cruft" is just an essay, not policy or guideline. --Nricardo 21:52, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
• Merge with the article on the station itself. I'm not sure why seperate articles on the news team are needed, and it seems to me that an article on the station would logically cover the staff, including the news team. Breaking out all of these articles into smaller articles isn't a great idea anyway: the WCBS-TV team may be notable, but then this is going to start happening to articles on, for example, the ION affiliate in Missoula, Montana. I'd prefer to keep these articles slimmer and more encyclopedic. It seems these articles are turning into little more than station web-site bios/publicity pages. Firsfron of Ronchester 04:47, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
• Merge with WCBS-TV per Firsfron.Blueboy96 20:01, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Actually a lot category by job entries are getting deleted. The problem is that in a business like this, people work for too many stations and in most cases, the station is not a defining characteristic. Vegaswikian 02:50, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete what's the honest point of having this list around? Categories work better for this type of work Whsitchy 20:23, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
• Comment: I would say Merge but wasn't the point of having separate articles for the news team to keep the main page from getting too big? WAVY 10 15:55, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
• Move to List of WCBS-TV personalities and keep. Being on a major network affiliate in the #1 TV market makes most of them notable, and the list is to large to be merged back into WCBS-TV. DHowell 01:58, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment: Moving to another article defeats the purpose of this AfD. The information is not too large to be merged back into the main article, and can be pared down considerably. Rollosmokes 02:06, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
• Keep per Richard Arthur Norton, noteworthy and verifiable, meets content policies. RFerreira 06:22, 10 June 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.