Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Headlines (Jay Leno)


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The result was   keep.   A rbitrarily 0   ( talk ) 22:14, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Headlines (Jay Leno)

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Zero indication of notability. ÷seresin 00:47, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
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 * Delete --Cutno (talk) 01:16, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Redirect to The Jay Leno Show. --  Blanchardb - Me•MyEars•MyMouth - timed 02:56, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment Well, "zero indication of notability" doesn't get it, given that the headlines segment has given rise to several bestselling books that raised money for pediatric AIDS. As with Dave's Top 10 Lists, the Headlines segment has notability independent of the television show upon which it is a feature.  No !keep, however, as the article is actually a compilation of jokes and mirthless, pseudo-scholarly explanations of why a particular joke is funny (e.g., "Jay usually introduces these with 'Here's something I didn't know...', and after showing them, sarcastically comments, 'Oh, really?' as if he had just learned that....")  As tempting as it is to make a list of the funniest things you've ever heard or seen on the Tonight Show (and the template is here for people to add the latest funny wedding announcement, news headline or advertising text), the not-as-fun alternative is simply to describe this in a paragraph and provide the link to Headlines website.  I won't be surprised if this ends up as a keep, since the nomination is wrong about "zero notability", but there's no good way to present a separate article about this feature.  Mandsford (talk) 13:42, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep per Mandsford. - Peregrine Fisher (talk) (contribs) 19:26, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep and clean up. The Late Show Top Ten List is its own article. I know, not necessarily a valid argument per Other stuff exists, but the point is that a very notable segment on a television show can/should have its own article to keep the size of the main article reasonable. Certainly the article in question needs to be cleaned up and presented in an encyclopedic manner, and not just be the list that it currently is. PDCook (talk) 21:04, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep I think being the most well-known aspect of a 17 year running program which was the most popular late night program for years qualifies. --Iron Chef (talk) 02:01, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep I can think of at least two previous occasions where this article was considered for deletion for the exact same reasons stated here (not notable, not verifiable, fancruft, etc.). At this point, it has just become a deletion-equivalent to an edit war, and it needs to cease.  This is the third time in which it has been nominated for deletion, and I predict, like a soothsayer, that this is the third time it will NOT be deleted.Wikieditor1988 (talk) 09:51, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
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