Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Horror podcasting


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The result was   delete.  MBisanz  talk 02:59, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Horror podcasting

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Mostly a dictdef, no sources, and could easily be merged into Podcast. What do people think? GTBacchus(talk) 16:59, 20 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete This isn't really a subgenre of podcasting, just a subject matter and I can't imagine where this largely unreferenced information could possibly be merged to. --Torchwood Who? (talk) 18:19, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * It is a subgenre of podcasting, there's many of these podcasts out there, and they've been self-identifying as horror podcasts as well as began to organize across communities. Several of them have been mentioned in genre specific publications such as Rue Morgue (see reference added), as well as been nominated for awards that already have been nominated for Podcast_Awards which has a wikipedia entry.  I understand that there's not much there yet, but if we could have some time to build on what's there there's plenty of external sources that document the significance of this movement.  --Everdayghoul (talk) 22:53, 20 February 2009 (UTC)


 * The horror podcasting community is strong enough to warrant its own Wikipedia entry. More than half of the Top 20 TV & Film podcasts listed at Podcast Alley are horror and genre-related podcasts, and the community of podcasts that have been built around the love of horror movies and media is a growing one.  Podcasters and podcast listeners have united for several causes in 2008 alone, and because this community is claiming new members every week, it would be a shame, I'd think, to not see this represented at Wikipedia.  --BrotherD73 (talk) 22:53, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * It's not a question of how strong the community is, it's a question of how well-documented it is in independent sources. No matter how vibrant a community is, a Wikipedia article has to be source-based, and if the sources aren't out there, how can we document it? -GTBacchus(talk) 18:12, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I have added the Rue Morgue article as reference, and as BrotherD73 pointed out there's the podcast ally top 20, which due to its democratic nature has to be somewhat objective, and there's the nominations for the Podcast Awards, which at the least testify to the significance of these grouping of podcasts. Not to mention, that as these podcasts begin organizing and identifying themselves as horror podcasts it makes the placement of a separate article more compelling. --Everdayghoul (talk) 18:35, 21 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Comment. Perhaps the content of the article would be best placed in a general article concerning podcasting about fiction. Horror is far from unique in having a strong podcasting community; science fiction podcasting, for example, is also a very vital community with a number of highly considered podcasts (e.g. Escape Pod (podcast)).  Perhaps a single article could be created that gives an overview of the whole subject, and then has genre-specific subsections? JulesH (talk) 10:29, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Makes sense, especially with so much bleedover between genres, sci-fi and horror often being lumped into the same episode, much less the same podcast. --Everdayghoul (talk) 13:20, 21 February 2009 (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.