Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions


 * 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 redirect to List of Jeopardy! tournaments and events. RL0919 (talk) 21:05, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions

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AfDs related to this article: Special one-time tournaments: Other tournaments:

While Jeopardy! is a widely notable television show and part of pop culture, an largely unreferenced article about a two-week-long tournament every season does not meet WP:N. Google search produces links back to this article, the production website, news stories about the most-recent winner James Holzhauer (who on his own meets WP:N), and external Wiki fandom sites. The list of contestants, which makes up an overwhelming portion of the article, is essentially WP:LISTCRUFT. Subject is adequately covered in List of Jeopardy! tournaments and events.

Of the nine footnotes linked within the article, seven fail WP:SIGCOV:
 * 1—barelink to hollywoodreporter.com and not news article in markup data
 * 3—local news story about 1969 tournament
 * 4—death announcement of former contestant
 * 5—promotional video announcing 2019 tournament by production company
 * 6—notation of how tournament format was developed
 * 8—notation of four former contestants who attended Swarthmore College
 * 9—dead link

Two fail WP:V:
 * 2—selfpub fansite content.
 * 7—notation that where possible paper records of contestants could exist

AldezD (talk) 20:29, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. AldezD (talk) 20:35, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
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 * Delete as per nomination.TH1980 (talk) 22:57, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Redirect to List of Jeopardy! tournaments and events. Use of fan sites and bare URLs for citations are not sufficiently notable for its own Wikipedia article.  Eye snore  02:28, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Redirect per Eyesnore. - Brojam (talk) 04:24, 8 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Redirect per WP:LISTCRUFT and WP:ROUTINE. This article is by all rights a mere extension of what's already covered in this section. Furthermore, 80% of the article is made up of just lists of mostly non-notable people which makes the article even cruftier. The subject of this AFD is in its entirety just a bunch of fancruft that has no business being an encyclopedia article. There's absolutely nothing in this article that's stated that's anymore noteworthy than if a local news station reported "Hey, someone from Paducah appeared on Wheel of Fortune". The AFD wolves target pages like these for a reason and that's because pages like these are the ones that tend to get the most out of control as far as getting ballooned with a monstrosity of useless and unnecessary content. The pack of AFD wolves have definitely made their case here ;)— Mythdon ( talk  •  contribs ) 06:00, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Redirect to List of Jeopardy! tournaments and events per nom. A simple description of the tournament's format and the typical pool of entrants is sufficient (and this is provided on the intended redirect target).  The rest of the page is a list of contestants who have appeared on the tournament since it began.  This violates WP:NOTDIRECTORY and WP:LISTCRITERIA as the majority of these contestants are not notable (with some obvious exceptions, such as Ken Jennings, but these contestants have their own articles that include their performances in Jeopardy! tournaments).  Frank Anchor Talk 16:01, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep but shorten and improve references for years not recently covered. Given the amount of sourcing we have for this article (which I disagree with the original nominee regarding whether it establishes notability), I think there's not enough sourcing to support most of the article. Whether there is a redirect or maintenance as a standalone article, a list of the grand champions for each year would be worth keeping, as there's generally been enough independent news coverage of Tournament of Champions events each year to qualify. That's seen in some of the more recent tournaments but could be expanded upon for the earlier ones. Beyond that would likely constitute excessive detail and WP:LISTCRUFT/WP:FANCRUFT. J. Myrle Fuller (talk) 17:17, 9 January 2020 (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.