Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of films about television


 * 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 delete. — Kurykh  00:53, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

List of films about television

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There is a suggestion to merge this information into a category. IF anyone can come up with a good category some of these films would work with, then perhaps. However, the list should go as it is another "about" list that focuses primarily on the "existence" of television production somewhere in the film. A true film about television is going to be hard to find, but some may exist. Bulldog123 17:46, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete "films about" have the inherent problems: how "about" the subject must a film be and who tells us that its at least that much? Carlossuarez46 18:44, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete No way can this list be encyclopedic or maintained. IMO it fails WP:NOT as there is also no inclusion criteria.  Does it mean it mentions television?  100% solely about television?  Very arbitrary...also, bruce almighty is not "predominately" about television.  So what if he works as a reporter, the show isn't about him being on TV.  This list is definitely not needed, not even as a category.  -- su mn ji m  talk with me·changes 18:49, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as listrcuft. Useight 19:27, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. There's an encyclopedic list in there somewhere, but it would have to be tightened up considerably to qualify. Being There? Give me a break. Clarityfiend 19:56, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
 * KEEP - Bulldog123 previously nominated this article for deletion. The issue was discussed on the article's Talk:List of films about television, which I suggest reading. Bulldog123 never responded to the reasons for keeping. Ward3001 00:46, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete &mdash; This is not what Wikipedia was intended for. If people want to catalogue the topics of movies they should set-up another wiki or a user-editable database. Cedars 03:20, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep Bulldog said: A true film about television is going to be hard to find. If Good Night, and Good Luck isn't about television, then I suppose he would only consider a legitimate item on the list to be a film that explained how television was invented and the electronic specifications that make a television work. With Bulldog's logic, nothing is about anything. If there was a "List of U.S. Presidents", Bulldog would argue that the list is not legitimate because it doesn't tell you anything about the Presidents besides their names, or that the list isn't all-inclusive because the President after George Bush hasn't been elected yet. I understand that making a list about everything isn't what Wikipedia is for. But I think if you look at some of the items in List of films about television you would see that some of them, in fact, are about television. Dunnd 20:07, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - Anchorman is not about television, neither are most of the movies listed there.  This is pure original research.  Corpx 02:02, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep the list or convert it to a category. Some of the films may need to be deleted, but otherwise this is a legitimate list or category. Tworth 22:18, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete While I enjoyed the basic idea of the list, I think that if it went further and described the TV connection in each one, it would become clear how unrelated the films are. I'm trying to remember what this is called... indiscriminate information or something... and it's an apt description here.  Poltergeist is about a haunted TV set; Pleasantville and UHF are about "magical" TVs as a satire on the TV land (and to some extent, Galaxy Quest is as well); Quiz Show and "Good Night, and Good Luck" are about historical events; The Truman Show, Network and EdTV are "what if?" movies; etc.  I don't know if these indiscriminate topics can be linked together by a television set.  Mandsford 01:58, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete; WP:NOR/WP:NOT. I remember a while ago I attempted to slightly improve this list by correcting the category from the irrelevant Category:Lists of films with features in common to the more accurate and much more relevant Category:Lists of films by topic, but two editors kept reverting it back to the wrong category. You just can't help some people. Masaruemoto 06:06, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Masaruemoto neglected to point out the rationale for the reverts to what he considers the "wrong category": Television is both a topic and a feature. Many Wikipedia articles have multiple categories. It's his opinion as to which is more accurate and relevant. You just can't help some people to be flexible. Ward3001 14:46, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
 * The only thing I neglected to point out is the ignorance of the editors who reverted my corrections, in their failure to understand the fundamental difference between a feature of a film and a topic. You have just pointed that out better than I could though, thanks. Masaruemoto 04:53, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
 * That's a great example of inflexibility and violation of no personal attacks policy. Ward3001 16:56, 23 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete likely incomplete, listcruft, unmaintainable and this can be put into a category as the tag suggested in the article.--JForget 15:01, 22 July 2007 (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.