Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Angel (TV series) plot summary


 * 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 delete. --Core desat 06:28, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Angel (TV series) plot summary

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Delete - this is a plot summary of the series and Wikipedia articles are not plot summaries. Otto4711 06:13, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong Delete again, per WP:NOT which says no plot summaries Corpx 06:25, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete again, per the nom. Clear-cut.  --Haemo 11:32, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. Please tell me that plot summary articles aren't the next "in pop culture" gang to appear at AfD ..  Ark yan  &#149; (talk) 15:06, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment, moved to buffy. Carlosguitar 15:09, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Number   5  7  15:44, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep This article provides a brief summary of the plot arc for each of the seasons, without giving a blow-by blow description of everything that happens in each episode. A series such as this has events confined within an episode, but also has a season long plot arc, which is not contained in the capsule summaries of the individual episodes. Per WP:IAR we are not required to slavishly follow every word of WP:NOT when it removes encyclopedic content that editors see as important to understanding the main subject, such as a successful TV series. "Keep" results from AFDs such as this can provide evidence that the alleged policy does not reflect practice and needs to be revised. If the consensus is against keeping this as a standalone article, then I suggest the closing admin merge this to the main article to replace "Plot summary". There are reliable and independent sources to back up such season-long plot summaries, to be fund in the numerous sources listed in Buffy studies (no kidding!) Edison 16:07, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep I may now be in the small minority, but I continue to think such articles a reasonable way to provide plots, rather than individual episodes. For people (like me) who rarely watch these series, it is valuable to have some idea of what is going on, and that is a reasonable function for an encyclopedia that covers popular culture at all--to discuss it, it is necessary to say what it is. WP:NOT is subject to reasonable interpretation, like all policy--in this case, to say that the plot should not make up the majority of the overall discussion.DGG (talk) 16:11, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete The article is just a plot summary, fails WP:NOT by design. Jay32183 18:40, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete WP:NOT. Masaruemoto 03:09, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NOT and WP:N, unless anything is mergeable to the main article (in that case, merge). &mdash; Deckiller 03:42, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. An encyclopedia is not a story book. --maclean 05:43, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletions.   -- John Vandenberg 22:56, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 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.