Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of TV channels that air The Simpsons


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.  

The result of the debate was delete - Liberatore(T) 16:21, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

List of TV channels that air The Simpsons
Delete. Not very notable, violates policy, etc. I also suspect a vandal removed the PROD tag, since their IP has been repeatedly blocked. -- Chris   Ccool2ax  03:45, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment. I don't like the list because we can't carry other lists of things because they aren't popular, which people take as synonomus for notability. I also don't think that The Simpsons or any article deserves such down-to-the-bone detail. We are an encyclopedia, not an end-all reference. This, among other reasons, is why I voted delete. -- Chris   Ccool2ax   contrib.  23:56, 14 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete. Listcruft. Zaxem 04:29, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Danny Lilithborne 04:36, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per Zaxem. But IMHO i think the "vandal" hasn't read WP:OWN. M1ss1ontomars2k4 04:38, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Listcruft doktorb | words 08:32, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Simpsonscruft. Jude (talk,contribs,email) 11:27, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Bucketsofg✐ 16:40, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Listcruft. :) Dlohcierekim 18:17, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Not very useful and impossible to maintain. 23skidoo 19:21, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep or merge with The Simpsons although it may make that article too long. Fascinating demonstration of the popularity of the show. It is essentially part of the main article, which, as is practice, has been separated when the main article becomes too long. Tyrenius 20:25, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep This actually appears to be a fairly complete list that was started in July of 2004. I can't imagine that this is the most useful list in the world, but there's no reason to delete. (Wikipedia is not paper, etc.). I'd hate to see the joint efforts of so many people over the past 2 years go up in a cloud of smoke. --Bachrach44 20:46, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
 * {after edit conflict) A very reluctant keep for me, because I know some anon will start building another list in the main article. Plus, we have other articles like this, such as Airdates of Lost. Also, I think it was split out of the main article (which is too big as it is) a long time ago. -Whomp 20:48, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Changing to no vote. -Whomp 04:31, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Now changing to delete, as their actually is a section about it in the main article in paragraph form. -Whomp 23:05, 15 May 2006 (UTC)


 * delete or merge with the Simpsons — Preceding unsigned comment added by ChaosAkita (talk • contribs)
 * comment Merging would be disastrous the main article and this sub article are both incredibly long. Merging would create an article of an unwieldy length. --Bachrach44 13:50, 15 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom, listcrufty unmaintainable really bad idea; re. User:Whomp's comment, anons can no longer create new articles. Angus McLellan (Talk) 22:56, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually, what I ment is that anons could start a section in the main article (this one). -Whomp 04:28, 15 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Comment. In this current version I remain neutral, but I have a feeling that people wouldn't react so strongly against it, if it were done like Airdates of Lost. However, I am currently working on making the article The Simpsons better and I want to shorten the section The_Simpsons and move the information to a separate article according to WP:SS. The new article would be called Broadcasting of The Simpsons and would merge information from that section, The Simpsons in French and The Simpsons in Australia, although the last one is almost complete crap. I could try and fit this list into the new article. Is that a good idea? --Maitch 22:57, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete for unmaintainability - the list was started two years ago; how many of these channels still air the Simpsons now? And what's the point of an article like this, anyway? Is somebody going to check wikipedia to see if they can watch the Simpsons in their country? - DavidWBrooks 00:58, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Wikipedia is not TV guide. Golfcam 01:25, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete For the many reasons stated above. DVD+ R/W 04:36, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, listcruft. Vizjim 10:37, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep, if not then merge into main Simpsons article CoolKatt number 99999 22:46, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
 * And why should we keep it, Coolcat? Please state at least one reason (no, "I like the Simpsons and if anything bad happens to one of its thousand WIkipedia articles I'll start crying" doesnt count.) -- Chris   Ccool2ax   contrib.  04:10, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
 * (CoughcoughWP:CIVILcough) Vizjim 10:00, 19 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Weak delete - we probably don't need a long list of every TV station in the world that broadcasts The Simpsons. Such information could probably be found easily enough on Google. A brief list of the main channels in the US, UK, Europe etc. which air the show should be included in the main article, however. Andrew 10:25, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Might as well be "List of every channel that has shows on it." Listcruft. Kafziel 13:05, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. --CFIF (talk to me) 10:54, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge with The Simpsons. +Hexagon1 (talk) [[Image:Flag of Australia.svg|30px]] 08:48, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. I vote delete because the thought of having this list merged with the main article is just too stupid. --Maitch 10:22, 19 May 2006 (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.