Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Driving Television


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 08:16, 21 May 2017 (UTC)

Driving Television

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Minimally sourced article, with some advertorial tint, about a television series. While this aired on a national television network, and thus would qualify for an article if it could be properly sourced, there's nothing here that would exempt it from having to clear WP:GNG -- but on a ProQuest search, all I was actually able to find was one article about its premiere in a newspaper owned by the same company that owned its parent network at the time (thus not a fully reliable source, because it represents internal corporate cross-promotion rather than independent coverage from a media outlet without a vested interest), one article which confirmed that it aired as a paid program (i.e. the same class of programming as infomercials) rather than as one that the network purchased per se, and a bunch of glancing namechecks of its existence in articles about other things (mostly "Zack Spencer is the host of Driving Television" at the bottom of articles in which Zack Spencer was the bylined author and not the subject.) For added bonus this was heavily tarted up with unsourceable insider baseball from the producers themselves, and once I stripped that because WP:NOTADVERT and WP:COI there was almost no substance left except "this exists". There's simply not enough meat, or enough legitimate sourcing, to deem this notable per WP:TVSHOW. Bearcat (talk) 18:00, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 18:10, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 18:10, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 03:40, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete -- strictly promotional with no indications of notability or significance. K.e.coffman (talk) 06:13, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  CAPTAIN RAJU  (✉)   18:30, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete as failing WP:GNG. Side note, I was also surprised at the quantity of trivial mentions in my searches. Winner 42 Talk to me!  19:55, 13 May 2017 (UTC)


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