Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of The Wire writers


 * 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. I do not see a strong argument for deletion here. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 11:22, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

List of The Wire writers

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This list is derived from List of The Wire episodes. Even if useful, it has no place for encyclopedia, especially when it violates WP:IINFO. George Ho (talk) 17:00, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:46, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:46, 3 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Why do you think it violates IINFO? postdlf (talk) 18:23, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep It's a good list, in the sense that it has clear inclusion criteria, limited scope, notability. I see nom's point to some degree, but I certainly wouldn't call it an WP:IINFO.  That would be somethink more akin to List of people who think Breaking Bad is the best show, except for maybe The Wire Roodog2k (talk) 18:37, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete It's not really necessary. --StewieBaby05 (talk) 19:24, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment "Isn't necessary" isn't a valid argument for deletion. Roodog2k (talk) 19:31, 3 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep I added wikilinks to some of the names, and a lot of the writers are notable. A sortable list would be more useful if anyone has a bot to make adding one super easy.  Perfectly valid list, grouping people with something in common.  Did any of them win awards for writing for this show?   D r e a m Focus  02:24, 4 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Weak redirect to List of The Wire episodes which includes the story/teleplay writers for each episode. Quite a few shows have similar titles redirected to list of episodes articles, like:
 * List of writers of The Simpsons goes to List of The Simpsons episodes
 * List of Angel writers goes to Angel (TV series)
 * That said, quite a few also have standalone lists, like:
 * List of Doctor Who writers
 * List of The Sopranos writers
 * and Category:Lists of writers by television series
 * I suppose I think the content is worth retaining, I'm just not sure there is great value in preserving it twice in two different lists if it already exists elsewhere. Stalwart 111  02:35, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
 * The Simpsons article was never made, except as a redirect. No history to it.  The other got deleted because it just had a list of names, no information about them, and the handful of people showing up to comment on it years ago said to delete it.  Not relevant here.   D r e a m Focus  02:44, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Yep, you've successfully missed my point entirely. And I'm not sure that simply declaring someone's opinions "not relevant" is particularly collegial or conducive to consensus-building. But hey... whatever. Stalwart 111  03:58, 4 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete - Content is a duplicate of List of The Wire episodes --JetBlast (talk) 22:26, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep - I do not really understand how the nomination can claim this is "indiscriminate information" given how clearly bounded the list is. The article provides a perfectly encyclopedic mode of navigating the episodes by writer (which the format of List of The Wire episodes precludes) - if the episode list article was reformatted into one huge sortable wikitable then this article would indeed be redundant, but such a large table would have its own issues. ~ mazca  talk 23:58, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  MBisanz  talk 21:38, 13 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep Nomination fails to articulate an appropriate deletion rationale: WP:IINFO does not apply. Jclemens (talk) 22:29, 19 April 2013 (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.