Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lengths of superhero film and television series (2nd nomination)


 * 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  d elete. - Mailer Diablo 07:52, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Lengths of superhero film and television series

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Delete - See first AFD here. In the six weeks since the AFD closed there has been no improvement to the article, indeed, no edits at all other than a bot-assisted disambiguation. In re-reading the discussion from that AFD it's clear to me that the "delete" arguments were far superior, especially the arguments put forth by Serpent's Choice. With theatrical releases, re-releases, special editions, director's cuts, double dipping DVD releases with previously unreleased bonus footage, etc. there is no real clear consensus as to the running times for many of these projects. Add to that the concerns with how to count various projects featuring one character or another. Much was made in the previous AFD of a BBC article that talked about Doctor Who being the longest-running sci-fi show, however, that citation indicates a fundamental misinterpretation of the BBC article. It was talking about what series had been on the air the longest with the most individual episodes, not what series, with all episodes run one after the other, would take the longest to get through. Many of the !votes to keep were based on sentiments like "it was kept the last time and that's good enough for me" (referring to a completely different AFD of a completely different article), ignoring the reality that consensus can change. Others talked about how useful or interesting the article supposedly is, which are not strong arguments for keeping. Still others compared the article to other articles to justify its existence, which again is a weak argument. Finally, consider Articles_for_deletion/Lengths_of_fantasy_film_and_television_series for a similar article which was deleted. Otto4711 19:53, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. I'm not sure if it's a violation in principle of WP:NOR but it certainly comes off as a violation in spirit. Needs to be continually updated, and is instantly rendered inaccurate by syndication edits, local broadcast standards, etc. I support deletion of Lengths of science fiction film and television series for the same reason. 23skidoo 21:26, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - It's true, the people who voted keep before haven't used the previous nom as an incentive to improve the article. Also - where's Spiderman? (and many others) Masaruemoto 21:37, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete indiscriminate. There is no encyclopaedic topic for length of an arbitrarily chosen type of film, so a list of them is simply fancruft. Guy (Help!) 09:44, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge into Lengths of science fiction film and television series (unless someone successfully nominates that for deletion). -Sean Curtin 03:59, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I think it would make more sense to merge it into Lengths of fantasy film and television series, but for some reason that one was deleted while the science fiction one was twice kept.


 * 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.