Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Guests on Late Night with Conan O'Brien (2nd nomination)


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The result was Delete -- JForget  23:45, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

List of Guests on Late Night with Conan O'Brien (2nd nomination)
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Relisting separately per result of last AFD: Unsourced list that does not provide any functional information, external link implys links only to the imdb page for the show and not the page where the information comes from: the link also implys that this entire article is merely a reprint of IMDB's data. Should wikipedia merely mirror information from another website? As stated in the previous debate, almost everyone who's anyone in show biz has been on Late Night. An indiscriminate list of people's names with no additional information is fairly useless information, and not particularly notable.

On an unrelated point, I appologize if I screwed up the format of this AFD: instructions said to add (2nd nomination) to the tag, but that seems to have really messed up this preloaded AFD. The previous combined AFD for this article and others is available at Articles for deletion/Sketches from Late Night with Conan O'Brien. - TheHYPO (talk) 03:22, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Strong delete. Add the members to a category if desired. Stifle (talk) 16:01, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep Cleanup per tag that was already there, include dates, notes, and sources. --Pwnage8 (talk) 19:18, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. This list does not add value to Wikipedia. Late Night with Conan O'Brien has aired over 2,500 episodes, typically with three guests per night. Thus, the number of guests on the show is likely in the thousands. As TheHYPO indicates, a very large percentage of prominent entertainers of the last 15 years have appeared on the show; it's not particularly distinctive for a celebrity to have appeared on the show. The individual entries are unsourced and are just bare names with no comments, obviating the point of having a list. They are also inexplicably alphabetized by first name. Finally, the source used to generate this list may not have differentiated between actual guests and people who appeared in sketches; this might explain some of the redlinks. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:39, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions.   -- Fabrictramp (talk) 23:53, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions.   -- Fabrictramp (talk) 23:53, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Per Metropolitan90's "it's not particularly distinctive for a celebrity to have appeared on the show", this should neither be a category nor a list. Trivial, unsourced (or just a mirror), too many people anyway. – sgeureka t•c 07:48, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete As User:Metropolitan90 said, most celebrities have appeared on Late Night at one time or another. This is utterly unmaintable. (I also voted to delete in the previous AfD). --Phirazo 17:14, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Not much more to add. Bearian (talk) 18:56, 22 May 2008 (UTC)


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