Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Carfax 400 broadcasters


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The result was   Nom withdrawn - Article was BOLDly merged by author.. Black Kite (t) (c) 00:21, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

List of Carfax 400 broadcasters

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Deprodded with no reason given. Article is bare list of stats, per NOTDIR, NOTSTATS. See Articles for deletion/List of Auto Club 500 broadcasters. It's not actually sourced, either (one of the links needs registration and is a forum anyway, and the other one doesn't source anything in the article) but that's the least of its problems. Normally I would suggest a merge into the article on the race but this huge chunk of trivial stats doesn't belong there either. Black Kite (t) (c) 07:02, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete for reasons already given at previous deletion noted above. -- Jayron  32  07:09, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. Partially-sourced article concerning a major NASCAR event. The article lists which cable channels aired the event, and the source provided verifies that data. I'm not sure which tenet of WP:NOTDIR this is supposed to violate: it's not indiscriminate (in fact, it's quite specific), it's not a genealogical entry, an electronic programming guide, a sales catalog, a cross-categorization, or a complete exposition of all possible details: it's just a list of the television channels which aired the event each year, not that different from List of Super Bowl broadcasters to my mind. Seems like a valid list to me. More importantly, someone who is looking for this information will be able to find it here... Firsfron of Ronchester  07:18, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Except it's not really a list of broadcasters, is it? It's a list of commentators, which is trivia (and isn't sourced either).  A list of broadcasters would consist of three things and could be included in the main article in one sentence ("The event was broadcast by CBS in 1976, TNT from 2001-2006, and ESPN from 1982-2000 and from 2007-present"). Black Kite (t) (c) 19:01, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I'd say it is a list of broadcasters, just as its title suggests. It also includes the announcers each year... which doesn't seem unreasonable to me: books on, say, television history or historic television series (I'm thinking specifically of Alex McNeil's Total Television, or Tim Brooks' and Earle Marsh's Complete Directory to Prime time Network TV Shows, 1946-Present) quite often list which announcers/hosts appeared during which years, which is exactly what people who look up such information are looking for. Firsfron of Ronchester  01:36, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:07, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
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 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
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