Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Coronation Street cast

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The result of the debate was keep. Sasquatch&#08242;&#08596;T&#08596;C 03:56, August 3, 2005 (UTC)

Coronation Street cast
Couldn't we just link to imdb?}}-- BMIComp (talk) 21:19, 18 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep. This is a list article that provides links to Wikipedia articles about cast members. Your fancy imdb can't do that now, can it? Ground Zero 22:19, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong keep agree with Ground Zero -- Francs2000 | Talk [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|25px| ]] 22:24, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, if that's the purpose this serves, then... categorify. Dcarrano 00:21, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * A category can't say who plays which part. Kappa 00:51, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. The link from the VfD page to this page appears to be bad.  Dcarrano 00:21, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, wikipedia is not the imdb. Kappa 00:51, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep for reasons above. 23skidoo 02:51, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. The list is clearly long enough to be on it's own page rather than the main Coronation Street article, and can't really be replaced by a category since (as Kappa pointed out), it contains information beyond the list of articles (the names of the characters each actor plays), and also because it contains numerous redlinks to actors who do not yet have articles. --Stormie 03:49, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I think the American soaps should have the cast on different articles as well. Mike H (Talking is hot) 15:55, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep This is a break-out page. It wouldn't be here if it was still on the main page, but people create break-out pages to comply with system requests on page size. CalJW 19:30, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Show is a UK institution, and its main article is mammoth. Xoloz 04:46, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. There is precedent. Peter Ellis 04:56, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Deb 22:30, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Yes, shock-horror, I'm going against the flow, but that's my job now. Why? Policy. It breaks What Wikipedia is Not Rule M/R-1. And on top of that it is laughably unencyclopedic. I'm sure it could be worked into something like List of Coronation Street characters with main article links for each. On its own it violates our rules, and the rules (unless new proposals are made) are the rules. Official policies should not be broken, least of all for a cruftlist that could be integrated with a character list of some sort and in some way, and in turn be made a lot more useful to the reader. As it is, a list of unidentified internal links tells me nothing of who's on the other end of them. GarrettTalk 10:50, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. the encyclopedia is not meant to be a respository of external links, but the ones listed here are internal ones. i don t see how you can say this is unencyclopedic - this is a list of actors who have appeared on the show and pages on the work actors do is encyclopedic.  moreover, there are a lot of people with interest in this info.  do agree however that adding bio info on this page briefly describing who the characters are would be most useful to the reader - Mayumashu 17:56, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge - add the contents of this page to the main Coronation Street Page. - The Time Killer
 * Keep - for the various reasons above. -- Lochaber 16:37, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - for the various reasons above. -- Lochaber 16:37, 26 July 2005 (UTC)


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