Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour episodes


 * 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 keep. Mailer Diablo 09:14, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

List of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour episodes
This brief and incomplete list was created by an anonymous user a year ago. In the intervening time very few editors have done very little work on it. The same anonymous user created on the same day the extensive List of Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes, which lists all the episodes of the half-hour show. That list has already been tagged for exceeding 48 kilobytes and, as in this case, attracted very little editing interest save for my own meager effort to improve the cast details for the first season and put links into the two-cast-member-per-episode list that the entry contains. I am a fan of the Hitchcock shows and appreciate the amount of work the creator of the articles put into them, but I had to nominate both lists for deletion, because neither contains any information that goes beyond what can found via the IMDb link. In fact, many of the cast entries list an episode's two minor players (which I corrected in the first season listings), apparently as a result of copying from IMDb without realizing that its policy is to list casts of TV episodes alphabetically. I appreciate rare and specialized lists (such as the same anonymous user's List of Scottish writers), but these two lists use up Wikipedia space without earning their keep. Many entries on individual episodes of TV series have been well done, as witness The Twilight Zone and Star Trek The Original Series and someday I hope the Hitchcock shows will come in for the same detailed treatment, but for now I suggest that the descriptive entry about the show (started by a different user two years ago) is sufficient. Romanspinner 07:28, 8 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Merge to List of Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes, or keep. No reason we shouldn't have this article, and it's much harder to improve it from nothing than from this.  Mango juice talk 15:50, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep much preferred to having articles for all the nn. episodes. Carlossuarez46 22:07, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep, preferable to individual articles for the episodes. Stifle (talk) 00:28, 9 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.