Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Daily Show segments


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The result was   delete. Big Dom  16:52, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

List of Daily Show segments

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Delete as indiscriminate, trivia, non-notable, unmaintainable, etc. This attempts to be not merely a list of every episode of The Daily Show, but a list of every bit and skit within every episode, which probably number in the thousands over the show's history. As a faux-news show, these segments are obviously topical and transitory, and the segment names are disposable puns. Those that are recurring, i.e., significant in some way, are already covered by List of The Daily Show recurring segments, and List of The Daily Show correspondents also annotates the correspondents by recurring bits they are known for. FYI, I adore the show, but this list is just not right for Wikipedia. And it looks like no one's bothered to update it since 2007. postdlf (talk) 17:53, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:39, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
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 * Delete. This can't be maintained, nor can it ever be well-sourced. Firsfron of Ronchester  02:15, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment I know of no Wikipedia rule for 'unmaintainable', other than the reverse: Don't demolish the house while it's still being built. And yet these arguments are presented ad nauseum. Jon Stewart erred when he used wikt:self-effacement to attempt appeasement in describing the Daily Show as 'fake news'; he should have known that on his side of the aisle, to give an inch is to invite Blitzkrieg. The 'puns' could only become 'disposable' should TDSwJS runs out of the thousands of aphorisms, metaphors, adages, proverbs, epigrams, maxims, idioms and combinations thereof that make up a good chunk of our (admittedly mostly European or American) spoken culture. TDS teaches culture; don't make WP a place that destroys it. Pick your rationales more carefully. Anarchangel (talk) 23:07, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete - List with no meaningful criteria. Clearly, not every segment of every episode, because then we'd need to make up a name of all of them and making up names for the handful we randomly select is already keeping us pretty busy. We have to make up the names, of course, because we have no independent reliable sources covering this because it's a topic we created. Unless we're going to start List of outfits worn by guests on the Tonight Show or List of people mentioned by name on the CBS Evening News or, heck, List of segments on the CBS Evening News (fundamentally changing what Wikipedia is in the process), there is no topic here in this uselessly huge, unreferenced orphan. - SummerPhD (talk) 02:21, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete - Interesting idea, massive task, unencyclopedic subject in the final analysis, mess. Carrite (talk) 16:12, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete The subject is adequately covered in List of The Daily Show recurring segments. I suppose this could become a redirect to that but it seems unnecessary. --MelanieN (talk) 00:11, 29 March 2011 (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.