Talk:Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1975–76

Merged content
Content on the original version of this page may have been merged from: Theoldsparkle (talk) 03:18, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
 * List of Saturday Night Live musical sketches
 * Saturday Night Live animal sketches
 * Saturday Night Live characters appearing on Weekend Update
 * Saturday Night Live TV show sketches of the 1970s
 * Saturday Night Live TV show sketches of the 1980s
 * Saturday Night Live TV show sketches of the 1990s
 * Saturday Night Live TV show sketches of the 2000s

Requested move 14 December 2019

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: no consensus to move the pages to the proposed titles at this time, per the discussion below. Despite the naming convention, it was pointed out that the criteria of consistency and recognizability may suggest different patterns here, leading to a lack of general agreement in these particular cases. Merging is an editorial decision that is outside the scope of this close. Dekimasu よ! 05:24, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

– These articles are in essence list articles, per WP:NCTV, these articles start with "List of [...]". Another issue is that these article titles are not WP:CONSISTENT with their parent article. Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 2018–2019 is a sub-topic of Saturday Night Live (season 44) as it even says in its lead The following is a list of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during the forty-fourth season of SNL, which began on September 29, 2018. The current title scheme makes it seem like it covers a different time period than the season.
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1975–1976 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 1
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1976–1977 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 2
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1977–1978 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 3
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1978–1979 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 4
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1979–1980 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 5
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1980–1981 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 6
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1981–1982 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 7
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1982–1983 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 8
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1983–1984 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 9
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1984–1985 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 10
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1985–1986 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 11
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1986–1987 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 12
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1987–1988 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 13
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1988–1989 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 14
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1989–1990 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 15
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1990–1991 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 16
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1991–1992 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 17
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1992–1993 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 18
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1993–1994 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 19
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1994–1995 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 20
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1995–1996 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 21
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1996–1997 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 22
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1997–1998 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 23
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1998–1999 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 24
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1999–2000 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 25
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 2000–2001 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 26
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 2001–2002 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 27
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 2002–2003 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 28
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 2003–2004 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 29
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 2004–2005 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 30
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 2005–2006 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 31
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 2006–2007 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 32
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 2007–2008 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 33
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 2008–2009 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 34
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 2009–2010 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 35
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 2010–2011 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 36
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 2011–2012 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 37
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 2012–2013 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 38
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 2013–2014 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 39
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 2014–2015 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 40
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 2015–2016 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 41
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 2016–2017 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 42
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 2017–2018 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 43
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 2018–2019 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 44
 * Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 2019–2020 → List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during season 45

Another optional title can be List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches (season 44). Gonnym (talk) 12:35, 14 December 2019 (UTC) —Relisting. Steel1943  (talk) 16:46, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
 * It might be a better option to significantly cut and merge these lists by decade, or maybe even one list depending on size. Most of the information is not proper in the first place. It should really be a table with name, years, main actors, and a brief one or two sentence summary. TTN (talk) 13:47, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm not commenting on if it should be merged or not as I have no idea, but regarding the list, a list isn't just a bulled list, see List of Arrow characters and List of Smallville characters as examples of lists of characters with sections. Very similar to these articles. --Gonnym (talk) 14:43, 14 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Oppose. To my knowledge, nobody ever talks about "Season ##" for SNL in reliable sources.  When discussing past SNL seasons, years are used (Chevy Chase was on SNL from 19XX-19YY...).  This new style is quite reader-unfriendly; I'd only be in favor if there was much worse ambiguity problems (e.g. the only reason the Academy Awards uses "68th Academy Awards" and the like is beacuse it's not clear if the 1996 Oscars are the events ceremony that took place in 1996 for movies in 1995, or the awards for movies in 1996 that took place in 1997.)  SnowFire (talk) 19:12, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose: ditto, plus that I see no need to force some admin to move 45 pages one at a time. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:53, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Seriously? How are the above 2 comments even valid comments? All the SNL season articles are using "season", see Saturday Night Live (season 44). Using that same article, the first 2 sources are "WHEN DOES 'SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE' SEASON 44 PREMIERE? 'SNL' RETURNS THIS FALL" and Adam Driver to Host ‘SNL’ Season 44 Opener, Kanye West to Perform. Also, Plus that I see no need to force some admin to move 45 pages one at a time really? Since when is that even a consideration? --Gonnym (talk) 10:14, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I would say that the SNL season articles should be moved as well. Re sources: sure, you found a few that use the numbers, but it's easy to find many that only use years.  Off a casual Google search:,  , etc.  I think "45th season" is common when talking about the current season, sure, since it's assumed it's talking about what's on in the future.  But for retrospectives / historical analysis, it's unusual to say "22nd season" to people in 2019 unadorned and expect them to immediately know what is being talked about.  SnowFire (talk) 18:01, 24 December 2019 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.