Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of NOW episodes

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 speedy deleted as copyvio. Fut.Perf. ☼ 08:08, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of NOW episodes (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

Yes, but TV series have episode lists that fit into their infoboxes. Tim Long 03:34, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge to
  WP:NOT#DIR states that Wikipedia is not a directory of loosely-associated topics. The episodes of a TV series are closely associated with each other. Otto4711 04:00, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply
  ]
  • You apparently missed Directories, directory entries, electronic program guide, or a resource for conducting business. Corvus cornix 04:01, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Neutral I disagree with turning an encyclopedia into a TV guide, but I think the current consensus is to keep these "List of ____" episodes. This one just needs to be prettied up to look like
  List_of_lost_episodes Corpx 04:01, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply
  ]

Note: I still need to work on this article, but I'll hold off until the deletion tag is removed, if it is. Tim Long 04:06, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Speedy Delete Bleh, Copyvio of this! Corpx 04:45, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep for now. Let's give Tim Long time to make it into a real article. If it stays as is, then it can be deleted. CitiCat 04:10, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Individual episodes of a TV series may not be notable, but in aggregate it's hard to see how something with such wide currency could avoid notability. Deranged bulbasaur 04:16, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Consensus does not trump policy.
    WP:NOT is policy. Electronic program guides are prohibited. This is an electronic program guide. Therefore policy requires that this be deleted. Corvus cornix 04:17, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply
    ]
    • It needn't be. It's just formatted as such. The entries could be divested of their dates and reformatted to be more encyclopedic. Deranged bulbasaur 04:20, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Speedy delete My previous contention is moot. It's a copyvio. The {{holdon}} rationale about PBS being government controlled doesn't hold water. The association is plenty loose enough that works produced by PBS are not automatically in the public domain. If that were true, their programming itself would be PD, and it's not. Deranged bulbasaur 04:54, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• As I state on the holdon tag, the text consists of just short summaries and comes from a government site (PBS) anyway. Tim Long 05:14, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• PBS is a "non-profit, private corporation " Corpx 05:15, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Do you not know what "public" means? Tim Long 05:18, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Public does not mean its in public domain. Look at the © at the bottom of that page Corpx 05:35, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Also, this is not an electronic program guide, it's an episode list. Tim Long 05:20, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep and Merge. I'd suggest keeping it and merging it with the series' mainpage, although some effort to make it not a direct copy of a pre-existing work should be included (as well as some wikification, both for readability and usefulness)spazure 07:49, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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.