Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of celebrity guests on The Howard Stern Show (2nd nomination)


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The result was   delete. Courcelles 16:44, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

List of celebrity guests on The Howard Stern Show

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Poorly-referenced WP:Listcruft: it's a well-known show, and if a person is important enough to be on the show, they are most likely going to be well known already. There is no reason to devote a list to just those who have appeared on the show. See also Articles for deletion/List of Piers Morgan Tonight guests and Articles for deletion/List of Guests on Late Night with Conan O'Brien (2nd nomination). This list is not consistent with Wikipedia content, and the information can be gleaned from a link via the Howard Stern entry link marked Marksfriggin.com. This information does not merit its own page, and if left unchecked, could set a precedent for every talk show ever in existence to have an unreferenced list on Wikipedia of guests that may have appeared on the show. Additionally, this information is unverifiable through conventional media sources. Gurt Posh (talk) 13:35, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions.  —Gurt Posh (talk) 14:26, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions.  —Gurt Posh (talk) 14:26, 23 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Comment This is a second nomination, see the previous AFD discussion at Articles for deletion/List of celebrity guests on the Howard Stern show, which was closed with no consensus. Gurt Posh (talk) 13:41, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete - If I were God, I'd delete because this would be a topic that would make me regret having created humankind, or at least the radio. As a mere Wikipedian, my reason for voting to delete is because the list is unsourced, unverifiable and unmaintainable. Bella the Ball (talk) 21:19, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:27, 30 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. This article is mostly unsourced and generally uninformative (many of the guests are identified only by name with no indication of when they appeared on the show). It is also inexplicably alphabetized by first name instead of surname. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 05:07, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete This is an unsourced article that doesn't have much relevance.Housewatcher (talk) 06:11, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete - Keep the cruft cruftworthy. Unsourced and uninformative. Carrite (talk) 15:58, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep on the basis that we do not discriminate based on quality or our esthetic or moral opinions. There's at least one !vote above based on intrinsic dislike for the program as a whole. The list can be verified--an archive of the programs exists and the show    received a considerable degree of public notice; it can be sourced for it   is usually mentioned in the article about the person and that would presumably have a source; it is not unmaintainable--a finite number of people appeared; it is not indiscriminate, because its limited to those with  Wikipedia articles; and whether it's presented in the wrong alphabetical article can be solved easily enough by editing. It's extensive to enough to be worth a separate article, but a merge with the article on the show does remain a possibility.  I had not noticed the two deleted articles, but I would have said essentially the same there, though without the first two sentences, which would not have been applicable. Fortunately, we can correct our mistakes.      DGG ( talk ) 18:30, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I see no point in keeping a list of only people who have articles on wikipedia; that defeats the purpose of the intention of Howard Stern for The Howard Stern Show.Curb Chain (talk) 08:40, 6 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete We shouldn't start making lists for every radio program listing their guests.Curb Chain (talk) 08:38, 6 September 2011 (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.