Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of So You Think You Can Dance finalists (American season 2)


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The result was delete. Tone 17:04, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

List of So You Think You Can Dance finalists (American season 2)

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As with Articles for deletion/So You Think You Can Dance (American season 16) Top Ten finalists, these are all poorly referenced content forks of dubious encyclopedic relevance. All five of them are merged lists of minibios of mostly non-notable contestants in a reality show, and none of them are citing strong sources -- pretty much right across the board, they're using references like the show's own self-published content about itself, episode recaps, IMDb or Yahoo Movies filmographies and social media content on Myspace or Facebook, and the few isolated sources that are actually real reliable source media coverage are all "local teen does stuff" human interest pieces in the competitors' local hometown newspapers, which is not a depth or range or volume of coverage that would have gotten them in the door as independently notable enough for standalone BLPs. And the relatively few competitors in these lists who are genuinely notable (Travis Wall, Allison Holker, Twitch, etc.) already have standalone BLPs separately from these lists and directly linked to from the main season article anyway, so it's not necessary to keep these just because there are a handful of genuine notables scattered among the cruft. We deprecated the idea that we should be keeping merged minibio lists of otherwise non-notable people at least a decade ago (as witness the fact that even though the show is now in Season 16, these standalone bio lists stopped happening after Season 6) -- in every case, the competitors are already listed in the season article as it is and the competitors who are independently notable already have their own separate articles, so these lists aren't necessary. Also, for the record, the deleted Season 16 article was apparently created because these exist, which is in and of itself another reason why these shouldn't exist anymore. Bearcat (talk) 15:24, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Dance-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 15:24, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 15:24, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 15:24, 27 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete Same as my S16 rationale; too much questionable biographical information, an abandoned concept which was never expanded beyond the first six seasons, and those that meet WP:N have their own articles. This simply isn't needed.  Nate  • ( chatter ) 17:53, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
 * "among the cruft" :: often, one man's cruft or trivia is another man's important relevant matter. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:38, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Which is precisely why we depend on reliable sources to tell us who's notable and who's not... Bearcat (talk) 20:52, 28 August 2019 (UTC)


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