Talk:It's Polka Time

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While this isn't the most self-serving of all wikipedia pages, I question that this article about a television show that ran for just over a year in the fifties is truly notable enough to be encyclopedic. Also, if the page were to remain, it would almost certainly remain an eternal stub; there isn't enough information or significance to warrant an article. Ben P. 21:57, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

I think that it is a fairly well-established principle that every U.S. television series which was picked up by a major network at the start of a season is encylopedic/siginificant. There are many more articles than this about other series that ran for a far shorter period of time. Remember that Wikipedia is not paper. This article hurts nothing and if it remains a stub, that is hardly tragic. There is very little chance indeed of anyone developing a good, full-length article about the show if this one is deleted. I happen to like polka music, as do thousands of other Americans, and would love to learn more about this show. If I do, and it is reputably sourced, I will include it here and hope that others will do the same. Remember that Wikipedia is the reference work that contains an article on every single Pokemon card and every episode of every Star Trek. This is hardly less encyclopedic/siginficant than those topics; I would argue that it is far more so. Rlquall 22:10, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Well put. While I still don't entirely agree that the page is significant enough to be encyclopedic, I do agree with the fact that the bar is low, and this article does clear the bar of importance. I'm glad to see that there is a committed editor on this page who will strive to get it out of "stub" status. I will remove the challenge to importance. This mark certainly wasn't meant as an attack on anyone's taste in music, and I am sorry if you took my challenge to be that. Ben P. 22:46, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Your remark was not at all taken as a swipe at my taste in music and I hope that no one else interpreted it a such. (Please understand that I like other musical genres as well; particularly insturmental ones such as classical and bluegrass; I'm hardly above listening to Classic Rock on occassion, either.) I would like to learn more about some of these old-time polka acts; the afficianados of the genre tend to be interesting, colorful characters, which goes double for some of the performers. Rlquall 01:14, 17 November 2006 (UTC)