Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of top 250 TV series


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The result was   delete. JForget 00:44, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

List of top 250 TV series

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I originally PRODed this with "Votes cast by users of IMDB is not a reliable or notable source". The author has queried this on the Talk page, so I guess that means it needs to be brought here for discussion. -- Boing!   said Zebedee  12:38, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. WP:NOTDIR / WP:NOT. IMDB's ranking system is deeply flawed and completely unreliable. — Rankiri (talk) 16:10, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete No references and not notable. --Andromedabluesphere440 (talk) 16:12, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:30, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:31, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete this user generated list does not appear to have received any coverage from independent reliable sources and so is not notable er the general notability guideline (despite being featured on a notable wesbite).
 * Delete This is a snapshot of what a list on imdb.com looked like on January 17. The context is that registered users of imdb.com can give their ratings of films (I'm not sure how TV series are handled) and one can look at a "Top 250", which the author apparently did a couple of months ago.  Since it's an ongoing process, the list changes.  Wikipedia users are fond of parroting the phrase "unmaintainable list", but this one really really would be an unmaintainable list.  Who knows what it looks like on March 26, 2010?  For that matter, who cares? Mandsford (talk) 13:02, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. The list itself isn't notable, is subject to change, and has a serious issue with recentism: nearly all of the programs in the article are from the 1990s or later. U.S. network transmission began in 1946, but this article lists almost nothing from TV's "Golden Age": it only has four TV series from that era (I Love Lucy, 1951; Alfred Hitchcock Presents, 1955, Leave it to Beaver, 1957; The Twilight Zone, 1959). Are readers truly supposed to believe that nearly all of the best programs of all time came from the past 20 years? I certainly do not. Firsfron of Ronchester  04:40, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
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