Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of children's television series by country


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The result was delete. Bigdelete has been requested at Meta. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 12:19, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

List of children's television series by country

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We already have Category:Children's television series by country and I can't think of any advantages of the list in its current form except as a collector of cruft and as a magnet for vandals. It was spun out in 2006 from Children's television series after this AFD. Concerns about red links and off-topic info have previously been expressed in this section of the talk page. I've encountered this list twice recently while fighting a particularly long-term and prolific vandal and I think it's time to put it out of its misery. Note that, if this AFD is successful, a steward will have to do the deletion because the page has more than 5,000 revisions. Graham 87 20:46, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Television, Lists, Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe, Oceania, Latin America, South America,  and United States of America.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 20:58, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete Far too long to exist as one list, at over 5,000 entries and around 4,500 bluelinks, with some individual countries having upward of 500; we could, however, use more specific lists of children's television series, e.g. List of Brazilian children's television series. –LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄ ) 21:18, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment That's just taking the vandalism problem and spreading it across 150+ different articles, which is far from optimum. The category system fulfills this purpose and the worst the kidvid crufters can do then is add/remove categories. This isn't getting into the multi-national productions either where nationality isn't easily ascertained.  Nate  • ( chatter ) 23:22, 23 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete per LaundryPizza03 and WP:NOTDIRECTORY. This list has too broad of a scope in my opinion and is just a simple listing of TV shows without any demonstration of notability. XtraJovial (talk • contribs) 22:38, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete WP:NOTDIRECTORY, the category system handles this much better and this needs to go. We also should consider doing the same for everything in Template:Lists of television programs by genre, as many of these articles are zero-sourced, completely subjective calls as to a genre the show is in, or sourced to outright network PR which is unacceptable; this one has three (minus one sourced to fr.wiki), and two of those are just PR and a BFI list.  Nate  • ( chatter ) 23:08, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete WP:NOTDIR Dronebogus (talk) 01:18, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete Textbook case of a list that is better handled by the category system. I wondered if eliminating this list would generate a lot of orphans, and a spot check suggests that is not the case at all. Thanks in advance to the closer who has to clean up. Cielquiparle (talk) 04:10, 29 June 2022 (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.