Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of outstanding South Park episodes


 * 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. However it is okay to keep the version already now located in userspace. Cirt (talk) 21:54, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

List of outstanding South Park episodes

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An assortment of trivia and irrelevant opinions. Article title fails WP:NPOV, no indication as to why we should propagate these reviewers' particular viewpoints. Punkmorten (talk) 21:29, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. The viewers' choice could possibly be notable if it were not originating from the website of the network that airs the program, but in this case there are no outside sources to verify the information given by Comedy Central, which means this list contains only information from the original source. Mrathel (talk) 00:16, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per above, entirely WP:OR. Ten Pound Hammer  and his otters • (Many otters • One hammer • HELP) 01:13, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete for reasons patently self-evident. JuJube (talk) 02:10, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Original research, trivial listcruft. RobJ1981 (talk) 03:45, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Rewrite into the 25 most watched (by initial airing ratings), and the episodes which have won awards. 76.66.202.139 (talk) 05:08, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Sourced. A good way of doimg it. Avoids OR, includes a variety of criteria. DGG (talk) 06:19, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as blatant POV. Random people on the internet are not reliable critics, Comedy Central's own opinion is not independent and IGN is given undue weight. If the box set has gotten significant press attention, we can rename the article and focus on that. Any notable opinions belong in the reception section of the relevant episodes. - Mgm|(talk) 09:30, 6 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Merge back into the LOE it was split out of Sceptre (talk) 11:23, 6 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete Pure and unadulterated WP:OR and listcruft ukexpat (talk) 18:53, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment this information was salvaged from the LOE article. It was deleted from there because during the FLRC it was viewed as not really being part of the article. Nevertheless, I think this information deserves to be on wikipedia because if for nothing else, is a good place to list what reviewers saw as really noticible episodes. Why is this a listcruft? Nergaal (talk) 23:07, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete: Ran across this at DYK. I see this as arbitrary criteria for a list, "best" or "outstanding" can never be more than opinion, a list of outstanding episodes that have some kind of objective criteria to determine their quality would be much more useful (such as award winning episodes or whatnot). Lists like this are inherently in violation of NPOV and with no particular reason given why these reviewers have been given undue weight I must say delete.--IvoShandor (talk) 06:09, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge POV to seg out like this. Ed Fitzgerald t / c 12:02, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete for all of the reasons above. I don't see how a subjective list is worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia anyway.--Susan118 (talk) 23:08, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Question wouldn't articles like this one be sufficient to have a separate article like the present one on wikipedia? Nergaal (talk) 04:42, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
 * reply If several non-trivial source were to list the SAME episodes in a top ten list, then maybe you could have an article titled "Most Contraversial South Park Episodes", but just because some are listed in other sources by no means means that this list, which is a compilation of episodes made from completely different criteria, is notable. I have no doubt that an article titled "Contraversial South Park Episodes" would have enough sources to make it notable, but not a list of episodes made from random viewers' votings on the Comedy Central website. Mrathel (talk) 13:35, 11 May 2009 (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.