Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of working titles


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The result was delete. postdlf (talk) 21:48, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

List of working titles

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This page will be far too long once it's completed. &mdash; Music1201  talk  01:22, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Everymorning (talk) 01:37, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. North America1000 12:32, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions. North America1000 12:33, 14 April 2016 (UTC)


 * delete seriously indiscriminate. Mangoe (talk) 14:06, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I think the nomination argument is without merit: we have plenty of articles, including lists, that are extremely long: for instance, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress—a featured list—is 99 KiB (markup). If length were truly a problem here, it would be a reason to split the list into sublists, not for deletion. Our coverage of Ms. Katy Perry is so extensive that we have Katy Perry, Katy Perry videography, Katy Perry discography, List of awards and nominations received by Katy Perry, as well as articles about each of her albums and some of her songs—much of it featured content.
 * That said, even if this list is notable, it appears to be an indiscriminate collection of information, which is proscribed by WP:INDISCRIMINATE, so I must recommend delete.  Rebb  ing   15:56, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * The only reason I created this page is because all working titles were removed from the Working title Wikipedia page. Should this page be deleted, at the very least, all or part of this list should be transferred to the Working title page. --Jenniepierce567 (talk) 21:22, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment: Something to take into consideration here is that this list currently only has working titles from major English language film productions. Even if each country only has 100 working titles for any given film and we have 6-8 countries, that's easily 600 - 800 titles that would be placed on this list. However the problem here is that we're unlikely to deal with only 100 titles from any given country - the numbers for this are far, far higher and even if we split this off to various categories (American films, British, Spanish, etc) this is easily going to contain about 600-800 titles on average, once people know that it exists. It's incredibly likely that the list was kept to a minimum when it was on the main working title page because it wasn't defined as a list page per se. I've created dozens upon dozens of film articles and at least half of those have had working titles. I'm leaning towards endorsing a delete and only mentioning maybe a handful of titles in the main article as an example. List pages of this type really aren't a great idea because of the sheer amount of films with working titles in any given country, language, or genre. It'll be forever incomplete, even if we limit it solely to those films that are notable enough for inclusion in Wikipedia. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  06:27, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 05:40, 21 April 2016 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 07:25, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete This directly violates WP:INDISCRIMINATE. The scope is way too large (a list of every working title in existence throughout all cultures and across all time is an impossible task) Aoba47 (talk) 20:48, 1 May 2016 (UTC)


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