Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of celebrity guests on the Howard Stern show


 * 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 no consensus. Mailer Diablo 00:12, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

List of celebrity guests on the Howard Stern show
This page is not consistent with Wikipedia content, and this information can be gleaned from a link via Howard Stern entry link marked Marksfriggin.com. This information does not merit its own page, and although interesting to a select few, represents a waste of space. If left unchecked, this could set a precedent for every talk show ever in existence to list every guest they have ever had. Additionally, this information is unverifiable through conventional media sources. Countzer 04:32, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as listcruft. A very good argument by the nom about precedent.  If one were to start putting together lists of everyone who has appeared on each radio/talk show, it could potentially include everyone in the entertainment industry, especially once you get down to shows that have been around a while (i.e., The Tonight Show). &mdash;The preceding unsigned comment was added by 23:03, 9 February 2006 (talk &bull; contribs) Kinu.
 * Delete per Kinu and nom -- Thesquire (talk - contribs) 05:45, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep - I don't think setting such a precedent is so bad, if people want to try collect a list of all the celebrities who have been on The Tonight Show and post it to Wikipedia, more power to them. There are not that many talk shows notable enough to have long lists of celebrity guests, so I don't see it as being such a waste of space (Wiki is not paper). The info may be available on marksfriggin.com, but not in a comprehensive list format. It is also not unverifiable, there are many sources, both on the Internet and written, to check whether a particular celebrity has been on his show or not. This page was originally part of Howard Stern, and someone decided it was too large to leave on that page and so separated it out. DHowell 06:18, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep per DHowell. Dbtfz (talk - contribs) 06:34, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep per DHowell, who makes a good point. I mean, sure, a list of every celebrity guest everywhere would be useless and huge, but growth is limited by the ability of editors to spend time on the research and production. We mostly have better things to do ... right? right? rut-roh. Adrian~enwiki (talk) 06:39, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete I don't want to see a list of celebrities on any talk show, because then we will have to accept all talk shows, and we will end up with a pointless set of lists of all celebrities Ruby 07:15, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete bad precedent, a similar list for Letterman would list just about every hollywood celebrity. Theres nothing to explain why these guests were significant - possibly an article which wrote about the more significant appearances could be kept, but this is just a list. -- Astrokey44 |talk 12:59, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as per above.--み使い Mitsukai 14:53, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete listcruft.--Isotope23 17:29, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep per DHowell. Carlossuarez46 18:41, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per Astrokey44 - it would be one thing if this were a show with an occasional special celebrity guest star or guest host which would be a notable event, but Stern has celebrities and bands on all the time. Tufflaw 19:16, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as listcruft--Dinosaurdarrell 19:56, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep It would be hypocritical to say this isn’t Wikipedia material, but List of celebrity guest stars on Sesame Street is. This article should be placed as a stub until more information is written. It is wrong to say this cannot be verified when the editor who voted for deletion said himself he can verify it on marksfriggin.com Redd Dragon 19:59, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment - List of celebrity guest stars on Sesame Street is the only resource for this information, but it should probably be deleted as well. (Count Zero 23:16, 10 February 2006 (UTC))
 * Comment - This article is the only resource on Wikipedia for the guests of the Howard Stern show. If you are talking about a website having the information, then that makes no sense. Almost every article on Wikipedia has information that you can find on a website. Should we delete all of Wikipedia and replace it with a link just because other websites have the information? That is crazy. Redd Dragon 21:38, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment - Of course! We can replace all of Wikipedia with a link to Google, since nearly all of the information on Wikipedia can almost certainly be found there. DHowell 23:00, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep, or at least, make it a category. -- 9cds(talk) 20:52, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment - do not make it a category—if a category were to be created for every talk show, that would clutter up the category list for many celebrities. DHowell 23:14, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, unencyclopedic, and unmaintainable.JohnnyBGood 01:18, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 'Delete listcruft. Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 05:56, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, listcruft. No category please, a list is acceptable with closed eyes, category will be joke. Pavel Vozenilek 06:14, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as wholly unmaintainable.Gateman1997 09:00, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as an unmaintainable list of interest to a severely limited number of people, i.e. listcruft. Stifle 02:25, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep, easily maintained list of interest to a large number of people. Kappa 09:46, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep encyclopedic list.  Grue   16:00, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep as an easily verified, finite, specific list that helps keep the size of the main article down. Turnstep 13:55, 14 February 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.