Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of American television programs by debut date

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The result was delete. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 21:10, 18 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

List of American television programs by debut date

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This list has over 5,000 entries, and despite being formatted as a plain list, is so long that I have trouble editing it. It is redundant to List of years in American television, has few references to verify claimed debut dates, and the 2020s section has not been adequately updated to include all notable new programs. No other country has an equivalent list. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 21:27, 11 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Television, Lists, and United States of America. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 21:27, 11 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oops, we do have List of Chinese television programs by date and List of Japanese television programs by date, but the rest of my rationale still stands. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 22:01, 11 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. This content absolutely makes no sense as a separate list, and would only make sense if its content was merged to
  WP:NOTDIRECTORY. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 22:50, 11 May 2022 (UTC)[reply
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  WP:NOTDIRECTORY. Non-encyclopedic cross-categorization AND plain list AND loosely associated topics. These television programs are not significant because of their debut date or the fact that they are television programs. Delete.Lurking shadow (talk) 23:00, 11 May 2022 (UTC)[reply

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• Delete Cumbersome, cloying list.
  WP:NOTDIRECTORY. TH1980 (talk) 04:06, 15 May 2022 (UTC)[reply
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• Delete as indiscriminately large and arbitrary, per
  WP:NOT. Shooterwalker (talk) 23:39, 15 May 2022 (UTC)[reply
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