Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) guest stars


 * 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 was keep. Closing as keep. Please consider improving this list before nominating it. If upon improvement, there are problems and concerns about its inclusion in the encyclopedia we all know and love, feel free to renominate. Thanks everyone for participating and assuming good faith! Missvain (talk) 18:29, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

List of The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) guest stars

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A list of actors who appeared once (or rarely twice) on a TV show, which happens to be cult now. Still, like many other now-deleted guest star lists, this fails WP:NOTDIR and WP:LISTN, and is redundant to the episode lists, e.g. The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series, season 1). – sgeureka t•c 13:06, 11 January 2020 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete – unsourced, and thus no evidence of notability. Also, this is not how you do this – you would properly do a "[Cast or Characters] of The Twilight Zone" article, and then just talk about the important (i.e. notable ones). This version is WP:INDISCRIMINATE and not worth keeping. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 16:58, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep Cleary defined list, with a clear set of inclusion criteria. It is lacking sources, but AfD is not for cleanup.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 15:55, 18 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep WP:LISTN criteria is met Lightburst (talk) 01:05, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   07:34, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. LISTN is not really satisfied. True, MentalFloss and The New York Times (at least it seems so from the little snippet I can see without a subscription: "'Twilight Zone' featured a who's who of distinguished actors ...") discussed the guest stars as a group, but only the famous ones. I doubt that Mary Adams, for example, got any notice. The names an average person might recognize are listed in the main article. Clarityfiend (talk) 08:02, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep, but prune out the obscure non-stars (they should at least have articles; Mary Adams as Day Nurse has got to go). Clarityfiend (talk) 19:56, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
 * I've removed all the actors without articles, with one prolific exception. Clarityfiend (talk) 20:26, 24 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep Understandable that there are limited sources for something from 1959. Good historical piece for a notable production. PenulisHantu (talk) 16:59, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep There are probably some who could have articles but don't. I'll get to them at some point. DiamondRemley39 (talk) 20:33, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. WP:OVERLAP still overrides WP:N (cf 1 and 2). ミラP 02:48, 24 January 2020 (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.