Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of all Time


 * 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   keep. No arguments for deletion aside from the nominator. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:07, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of all Time

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Article consists of a list of the 100 greatest as defined by a TV channel. Trivia as per: WP:HTRIVIA Wintonian (talk) 02:36, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Although I think that the article needs a lot of work, I was actually surprised at how much this 2004 survey has been cited in the years since it was presented, even now , and biographies of comedians note it as a distinction. As far as I'm concerned, it meets WP:GNG, and it's not trivial.  Mandsford 02:46, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep per Mandsford. - DustFormsWords (talk) 03:04, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep per DovidKopel - I felt that their should be some sort of page with this information. Either about the TV program itself, or a generic listing of different statistics of best stand-up comeidians. I had watched the specials and found that there was no record of the information on Wikipedia and was surprised. I opt that this should be edited. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dovidkopel (talk • contribs) 03:43, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment I don't mind either way, but how is this not trivia? also the suggestion of making it about the TV program seems to be a good one. --Wintonian (talk) 04:25, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
 * It's not trivia as it's (apparently) a notable award, in the sense that it's received significant coverage in reliable independent sources. We might not personally find it as noteworthy an award as an Oscar or a Nobel Prize but sadly our personal judgement yields to the considerations of the general notability guidelines. - DustFormsWords (talk) 04:33, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I didn't relise there was an award up for grabs, it just looked like some list that was drummed up by a TV channel willy nilly. --Wintonian (talk) 04:42, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I've heard that accusation levelled at the Oscars. :-) Nevertheless further research has revealed it's probably better to treat this as a notable TV program rather than award - see below. - DustFormsWords (talk) 04:44, 31 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment - Commentors please note, the correct title of the article should be Comedy Central Presents: 100 Greatest Stand-Ups Of All Time, and if survives AfD it should be moved to that name. (A search under that name on Wikipedia (here) reveals a large number of articles that would benefit from the existence of an article of that name.) - DustFormsWords (talk) 04:44, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:10, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep - I agree this should stay. Its a common reference to notability in itself.  It should be changed to the link with its proper name with a redirect from this name.  Of course, I think we should have more redirects to aid people in finding things like this.  But then I have this odd idea that WP should be a source of information, rather than a bunch of deleted red links.OsamaPJ (talk) 19:01, 3 June 2010 (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.