Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of announcers in English-speaking countries


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The result was   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 20:16, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

List of announcers in English-speaking countries

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Totally wp:listcruft and incomplete. Category:Radio and television announcers covers appropriate list info.  Sottolacqua  (talk) 14:51, 23 November 2010 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:31, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Weak keep If it's appropriate for a category, it's appropriate for a list, WP:CLN. I can see other objections to the way that this is arranged, but not everyone likes to do the "and what's under this rock?" search that categories limit themselves to.  Mandsford 21:35, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions.  -- Jclemens-public (talk) 00:14, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment. There's certainly a place for lists of announcers in this encyclopedia, but I don't see why "in English-speaking countries" is a good way to organise this. If we just restrict ourselves to sports announcers, who make up the majority of this list, I, in common with most of my fellow Englishmen, would be unaware of any of those involved in North American sports, and I would suspect that most North Americans would be unaware of those who commentate on the sports played in the rest of the world. As an example most English people would feel that "our" announcers have more in common with Bjørge Lillelien than with any of these baseball announcers that nobody in Europe has heard of. Phil Bridger (talk) 21:53, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Pointless listcruft. Vague and arbitrary criteria for inclusion. Of no conceivable utility. AndyTheGrump (talk) 00:36, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Delete WP:LISTCRUFT with an arbitrary, indiscriminatly broad definition. - The Bushranger Return fire Flank speed 01:33, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Announcer is not even defined. Art Bell, a radio talk show host, seems a bit out of place. Is an announcer just someone who talks for a living? Better would be lists of sports announcers by sport, TV announcers by type of show, radio talk show hosts, and so on. Jaque Hammer (talk) 04:11, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete, I don't see how being an announcer is by itself notable, therefore this list is indiscriminate. J I P  &#124; Talk 07:28, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Indiscriminate list. Regent of the Seatopians (talk) 03:49, 1 December 2010 (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.