Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Acting Sheriff

This page is an archive of the discussion surrounding the proposed deletion of a page entitled Acting Sheriff.

Further comments should be made on the talk page rather than here as this page is kept as an historic record.

The result of the debate was to keep the page as there was no consensus on deletion.

Summary of votes
Delete:
 * Anthropos
 * Dogface
 * Daniel Quinlan
 * Tempshill
 * Tualha
 * Kingturtle
 * Minesweeper
 * dave

Keep:
 * Oliver P.
 * BL
 * The Cunctator
 * Alfio
 * Cyan
 * Angela

Discussion
Acting Sheriff - orphan, an unsold tv pilot from 1991 -Anthropos 13:12, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)
 * Delete. At best, it should be a sentence in an entry on the actor mentioned.  Deserves no entry on its own.Dogface 20:24, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)
 * Merge, then delete. Daniel Quinlan 04:29, Dec 10, 2003 (UTC) Mistaken vote, I don't know what I was thinking.  This is an advert, delete.  Daniel Quinlan 22:16, Dec 13, 2003 (UTC)
 * If content from a page is merged into another, the page should be kept as a redirect firstly in order to preserve the information on authorship (this is a legal requirement, as well as a Good Thing), secondly to enable people to find the content, and thirdly to enable people to link to that content. Having said that, I don't know that this couldn't become a larger article over time, so I would recommend leaving it alone for now. -- Oliver P. 18:12, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)
 * An advert? Of an unsold programme that was made in 1991? You think that that this is their attempt to sell it, now, twelve years later? -- Oliver P. 17:40, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
 * Delete. Tempshill 18:31, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)
 * Keep. This is exactly the stuff WP was made for. BL 20:17, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)
 * Why? It is not a subject of interest to anyone, other than, presumably, the writer who wants to sell it and probably posted the article.  If an unsold script for a TV pilot is great for Wikipedia, then so would be an entry on every high school in the world -- in fact, any high school in the world has a higher probability of being looked-up on wikipedia than does Acting Sheriff.  I would add that the article is not encyclopedic.  Tempshill 18:59, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)
 * Keep. I agree with BL. Well, Wikipedia's also made for Albert Einstein too. --The Cunctator 04:28, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)
 * Delete. Come on, an unsold pilot? Tualha 23:29, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)
 * Delete. Maybe someday they will sell it. But not yet. Kingturtle 08:17, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
 * Delete. What more could be said about it since it never sold? --Minesweeper 10:49, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
 * Does my placing the page on VFD count as a vote to delete? If not, please consider my vote to be "Delete". -Anthropos 11:22, Dec 14, 2003 (UTC)
 * But why? The fact that you're not interested in it, or that there isn't much information on it is not a reason to delete something. If you're not interested in it, then don't read it. Other people (including me) are, so leave it for them to read. If there is little to say about it, merge it into a more general article, when a suitable candidate has been identified. -- Oliver P. 17:40, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
 * There must be, and has been, some discernment as to what trivia gets included in these pages as a separate article. Generally, the topic must be of interest to "enough" people to warrant an article. My assertion is that this does not meet that criteria. As evidence, please consider this Google Search for goulet "acting sheriff", which finds 5 hits: one is Wikipedia derived, two are lists of Goulet's work, and 2 are from the website of someone who collects old (and mostly obscure) video and audio tapes. I have no objection to including the info from the article into an article on Goulet. But it just doesn't warrant its own article. -Anthropos 09:06, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)
 * Keep. It does no harm. Alfio 19:58, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
 * Keep. This is trivia, but I don't think it is unencyclopedic as I define the term. -- Cyan 20:10, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
 * Delete. dave 02:48, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)
 * More rationale for my "Delete" vote above. The Hollywood Reporter runs a list of the scripts and pitches that sell.  Last week's issue listed 31 such scripts.  If Wikipedia's mission includes providing information that will actually be looked up by someone, then each of those 31 scripts is in line ahead of Acting Sheriff.  For fun, let's assume that about 30 scripts a week sell to production companies or studios,.  In this case, there is a minimum of 18,720 scripts that are more important than this one.  Acting Sheriff is ridiculous trivia, relevant to nobody, and the only possible reason it exists in Wikipedia is as an advert.  Tempshill 19:21, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)
 * I agree with Cyan than this is not unencyclopedic. Angela. 20:57, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)