Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Sesame Street characters by last known appearance

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The result of the debate was keep - SimonP 05:08, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)

List of Sesame Street characters by last known appearance
Delete This is ridiculous.

Delete Page is not close to complete, it doesn't add value, it can easily be absorbed into other Sesame Street pages. And so on. Ringbark 09:32, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep. Just pause the vote for a week, please, so can rally the Muppet community to help. This page isn't as worthless as it may seem. Most posts by newbie of Muppet posting boards is "when did they get rid of..." So, if there's this many people willing to join boards, post their queries, and wait for answers, there could be millions more than would like to have these questions answered in a snap. Yes, the information on this page is covered in each character's bio, but it provide a condensed resource for most people, who wouldn't want to hop, skip, and jump around Wikipedia for answers. --  user:zanimum
 * That information can be put on List of Sesame Street characters. Zzyzx11 14:00, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. There is not any reason to delete this; it's level of completeness is not a reason to delete and it is very relevant to the base of fans for Sesame Street and related shows.  Unlike some other lists it can be complete as the list is finite. Courtland 17:24, 2005 Mar 13 (UTC)
 * I have moved this to today's vfd page, as it had not previously been listed on vfd. &mdash;Korath (Talk) 11:05, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. This seems useful to me. --Theo  (Talk) 11:12, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, and rally the muppet community to help. Sounds useful per zanimum. Kappa 11:47, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Rename to something less bulky like Former Sesame Street characters. And make it an article rather than a list. Other than that, keep. Radiant! 11:59, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikipedia is not a general information base.  We have an article List of Sesame Street characters, which lists them alphabetically.  This is exactly the same list, with the addition of one item of data (date of last appearance), and a different sort.   How many different sorts of the same basic data are we going to have?   Each separately, and manually maintained, and therefore out of sync.    How about: by date of first appearance, by number of appearances, by total length in minutes of appearances, by color, by height, by name of voice actor who played them, etc, etc.  It is stupid.  If somebody wants to create an online database of muppets and their appearances, and let people query it in all manner of wondrous ways, he can do it.  He can even put a link to it in the appropriate Wikipedia articles.   But Wikipedia isn't that database.   --BM 13:00, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I agree with BM.  Add the data to List of Sesame Street characters, not here. &mdash;Korath (Talk) 13:35, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I concur with BM. Merge the data to List of Sesame Street characters. Zzyzx11 14:00, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I will take zanimum at their word that they will expand this article into something workable. Admins, feel free to ignore my vote or count it as delete if article is not expanded well beyond 2 characters by the close of this VfD. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  15:00, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into List of Sesame Street characters if there are more than two entries at the close of this VfD, otherwise just delete. --TenOfAllTrades | Talk 17:53, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into List of Sesame Street characters. Concur with BM. DaveTheRed 19:54, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge anything useful, if any such thing exists, into List of Sesame Street characters. Though I did laugh at  [j] ust pause the vote for a week...so [I] can rally the Muppet community to help. Made me think that a frenzied crowd of Muppets (led by Animal, of course) would soon be converging on Wikipedia. --Calton | Talk 02:04, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Posted after major revision.


 * Merge with List of Sesame Street characters. Megan1967 05:09, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep or merge and redirect; this is the sort of information that people are going to be naturally curious about. -Sean Curtin 06:19, Mar 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Harmless at worst, appears useful to some folks.  Merging just makes the target article muddier. Jgm 15:41, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. As much as I hate to quote John Wilkes Booth:  "Useless, useless."  Edeans 21:08, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. This is why we have list articles. Snowspinner 16:19, Mar 20, 2005 (UTC)

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