Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of highest-grossing films based on television series

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The result was merge‎ to List of films based on television programs. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:15, 11 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

List of highest-grossing films based on television series

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An RfC on the talk page found no evidence that the list is based on any

WP:SYNTH. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 09:47, 28 July 2023 (UTC)[reply

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Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Film, Television, and Lists. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 09:47, 28 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. This good faith nomination and the related RFC seem to mistake a few things:
1. WP:CALC
  explains that routine calculations do not count as OR, so I don't see the OR or SYNTH claim.
2. One of the comments in the RFC mentioned that no other list had one of the movies at #1. However, in addition to the CALC note above, lists have always been allowed to be incomplete, and the list does not need to be covered in full elsewhere, per
  WP:NLIST
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3. The inclusion criteria seems pretty clear as an "X of Y" list, and though NLIST does not require the groupings of "X of Y" list to be covered elsewhere, in this case, "films based on tv shows" is covered in many places.
4. The data is sourced to BoxOfficeMojo, which is generally reliable for such data.

There may be a little cleanup needed on some of the sub-lists lower down, and there may be some referencing needed for the "continuity" column, but overall this is a fine list. —siro χ o 10:13, 28 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

We have to do better than The inclusion criteria seems pretty clear. Specifically,

WP:Original research at the whims of Wikipedia editors who have mined box office databases for the data and come up with a new angle from which to slice it more-or-less arbitrarily. It is a scourge. TompaDompa (talk) 23:34, 29 July 2023 (UTC)[reply

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Dissolve it in acetone (aka delete) as a blatant
unencyclopedic cross-categorization. There's no end to the type of way one could break out subsets of films to make "List of highest-grossing films that satisfy random criterion X". This one is particularly arbitrary and should not stay. 35.139.154.158 (talk) 22:26, 29 July 2023 (UTC)[reply
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Ping for the record the participants in
Politrukki. I have also left a message at User talk:98.228.137.44 since I don't think it is possible to ping IP users. TompaDompa (talk) 22:46, 29 July 2023 (UTC)[reply
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Merge to List of films based on television programs. Just add a column there to show how much money the films make if that's seen as something that needs to be listed. Dream Focus 03:21, 30 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
A good ATD, I'd support this. —siro χ o 03:31, 30 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Not a terrible idea in theory, but have you seen the state of that article? It's a complete mess. Seeing as the entries are not films but the television series they are based on, adding grosses is not really feasible without restructuring the list from the ground up. TompaDompa (talk) 03:37, 30 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete article, merge the first table to
WP:INDISCRIMINATE. No sources appear to be collating data on which TV-based movie was the highest grossing of the year, or which TV-based film was the highest-grossing prior to Jackass 3D. As TompaDompa states above, the format has been leveraged from the List of highest-grossing films (where the various tables make a lot more sense in terms of reliable source coverage) and then applied indiscriminately. Even if the article is retained, these secondary tables need to be junked, which wouldn't leave much of an article. There is a compromise here: merge the first table into List of films based on television programs and the outstanding issues with the table can be resolved at that article (retaining the option to delete the table if they can't be resolved), and the rest of the article should be deleted. Betty Logan (talk) 16:54, 30 July 2023 (UTC)[reply
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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Dusti ^{*Let's talk!*} 23:19, 4 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per arguments above. 2601:249:9301:D570:463:8F0D:7A59:36FC (talk) 04:04, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I have move it to the films based on television series page as suggested above when should the page get deleted Fan Of Lion King 🦁 (talk) 15:36, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
merge as its own section i would support to keep it but this list lacks of many movies so it would be better to merge it to the main list Braganza (talk) 09:17, 11 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete or merge the first table to
Politrukki (talk) 12:23, 11 August 2023 (UTC)[reply
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