Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of American Idol spin-offs


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The result was delete. Peacent 02:35, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

List of American Idol spin-offs

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Delete - tagged for cleanup for ten months. The absence of even vandalism patrol ("for both television and cinema sluts" indeed) indicates the low level of interest in the article. There is an extensive navigational template that captures actual AI-related spin-offs and series. The bulk of the article, when it isn't veering off into weird bits about Arthur Godfrey and The Gong Show, consists of trivial mentions of AI in other TV shows or films and most egregiously tons of WP:OR entries about other shows which share details of format or style with AI but which are "spin-offs" nowhere but in the minds of the editors who added them. Otto4711 14:29, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete List of irrevelent entries, some inaccurate. Unreferenced. Lots of WP:OR. Escape Artist Swyer | Talk to me 17:47, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Even if you don't count the thinly disguised "In popular culture" section, many of the entries on this list are dubious as "American Idol spin-offs". Come on, the video game is a spin-off? (It's a tie-in.) Even if this article were pared down to true spin-offs, there would be, what, two or three entries? The topic of AI spin-offs can be covered more than adequately in American Idol and List of television spin-offs (where AI and two spin-offs are listed under "Pop Idol"). szyslak  19:29, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. Doczilla 19:37, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. From the first sentence: "Whether they be official or not." Arbitrary and unsourced. The template serves the same function better. Resolute 23:18, 17 June 2007 (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.