Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Waynehead

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. Catchpole 20:43, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Waynehead

Notable? This was a Saturday morning cartoon, with 730 hits on google, which is amazingly low for pretty much any television program. Its age is the most interesting thing--1996, about 10 years old, existed for one year. I think this is the "imdb yes, tv tome yes, wikipedia no" category, where if it is so unheard of a mere 10 years after its one year run, it's not notable to the masses, and it probably wasn't notable when it ran. Also, Damon Wayans produced it--this doesn't help its notability particularly. Who knows him as a producer? Bottom line: only 10 years out, a TV show ought to show more evidence of notability than this. I judge it NN for wikipedia. Kmaguir1 07:40, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

• Strong Keep if not speedy keep. Produced by Damon Wayans based on his childhood and verifiable by sources listed by nominator. Broadcast widely and clearly notable. Article needed tidy up and sources which I have added.Capitalistroadster 00:08, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

I do not take the position that everything on TV is notable just because it has a potential of being seen by a lot of people. There's lasting effect, and this one clearly had nothing. Relegated to a Saturday morning position, it generated, obviously, no clear fan-base, no distinctiveness--it was cancelled after a season. I think that we go too far with TV, with too much inclusivism. Prime time? There's a reason to be inclusive, a wider actual audience. But when you've got 730 google hits, it's hard to say that, as TV shows go, that that is anywhere near notable.-Kmaguir1 00:56, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

• Strong keep per Capitalistroadster. If individual episodes of some series can get their own articles, then any show that lasted for an entire season on a well-known network should get an article. Keep in mind that this aired in 1996-97, a time when many children did not yet have regular access to the Internet. The Google test doesn't really apply here. The only cartoons generating a lot of discussion back then were those that catered to adults, like the Simpsons.

(Now, however, a single episode of a more recent Wayans-produced cartoon, Thugaboo ("Sneaker Madness"), gets 36,200 Google hits. If Waynehead had been released this year, instead of 1996, it probably would have receieved a similar number of hits.)

Furthermore, Waynehead does get 44 Lexis-Nexis hits from major newspapers and magazines, which is arguably more substantial than a hundred times as many Google hits. These results are all from non-trivial sources, which is something you can't say about Google hits.

Lastly, I do remember this show, and even it's theme song. I also recall that it aired on Sunday mornings on my local WCIU, rather than Saturday mornings. These facts have no real bearing on the discussion; the point is that Waynehead wasn't as obscure as you think it was. At least some people were watching. Zagalejo 07:47, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

• Weak keep It's not particularly notable and it could do with more content but on the other hand Wikipedia isn't paper. BTLizard 07:51, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

• It's definitely expandable; interestingly, Damon Wayans orginally planned to make this a claymation series about people with oversized heads. :) The article is a pretty clean stub right now, so it doesn't need immediate work, but I might come back to it some time in the future to add some info. Zagalejo 03:55, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

• Keep per above. --badlydrawnjeff talk 14:55, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. It's a pretty well established precedent that any TV show that aired on a major network is notable enough for Wikipedia, however short-lived. Quark (TV series) only lasted for seven episodes, eight if you count the Pilot. wikipediatrix 15:14, 6 September 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.