Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of years in Israeli 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 (talk) 02:14, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

List of years in Israeli television

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There was a relevant discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents, which resulted in some dissenting opinion preferring to send them through AfD.

Each of these articles are almost entirely empty, apparently mass copy/paste created by a single user. Even if they weren't empty, they're bare duplication of the relevant categories, and as far as I can tell, are for the most part lower quality duplication. The entire lot of them are one giant WP:Walled garden with respect to incoming links,

Now, there are definitely examples of these types of articles which are long-standing, have been created by other users, worked on by many editors, and contain substantial content beyond that which a category would contain. See for example 2010 in American television. However, the articles created by this particular user and nominated here have remained empty in some cases for years, and (intentionally or otherwise) have been created so as to just barely be disqualifying for A3.

Per the ANI discussion linked to above, there was a recent discussion on IRC which resulted in deletion of a spate of YEAR in French television articles being deleted. But there seemed to be insufficiently universal approval for expanding this drastically without AfD, so here we are. Timothy Joseph Wood 18:19, 9 March 2017 (UTC)  Timothy Joseph Wood  18:19, 9 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Strong delete - I was involved in the IRC discussion and the nominator has put it beautifully. The creator seems to have done this several times with  in French television so I would personally suggest salting them after deletion.   Dr Strauss   talk  18:35, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete - The articles are almost empty, and unlikely to be populated by any meaningful content. Besides, what constitutes an "event"? Going through these and other related pages, most just have TV episode announcements (e.g. won on ). A category does this job better. Primefac (talk) 18:41, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom.  Lugnuts  Precious bodily fluids 19:20, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:57, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:57, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:57, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Israel-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:57, 9 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep but only because I do not feel this is the current approach for such a mass deletion, it needs a more thorough procedural review. I think more conversation needs to happen from a more broad audience before a decision can be made. Just looking at one random year, 2014, the Israeli page is just as underdeveloped as: 2014 in Albanian television, 2014 in Belgian television, 2014 in Brazilian television, 2014 in Danish television, 2014 in Estonian television, 2014 in French television, 2014 in German television, 2014 in Italian television, 2014 in Mexican television, 2014 in Dutch television, 2014 in Norwegian television, 2014 in Pakistani television, 2014 in Polish television, 2014 in South African television, 2014 in Spanish television, 2014 in Swedish television, and 2014 in Turkish television.
 * The only well developed pages appear to be: 2014 in Australian television, 2014 in Canadian television, 2014 in Irish television, 2014 in Japanese television, 2014 in New Zealand television, 2014 in Philippine television, 2014 in Portuguese television, 2014 in Scottish television, 2014 in British television, and 2014 in American television.
 * Being as there are so many pages that should be looked it, this should really be changed to include a much broader reach and get feedback on all the underdeveloped country pages together. Otherwise Israel is just being singled out, when it should be part of a more comprehensive group. -  Galatz Talk  22:02, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
 * If the current proposal succeeds, the plan is to continue to nominate. If several are successful, then the plan is to broaden the deletion discussion to include multiple countries at a time, given the precedent set by the previous AfDs. Israel was chosen 1) because it was just one of the recent ones the user had created in, and 2) because it seems most likely to inspire a sort of nationalistic drive to improve the articles to the point where they shouldn't be deleted, and thus seemed like one of the more conservative approaches tending toward preservation. Other than that, there was a broad discussion at ANI, which did not result in a particularly rock solid consensus for mass deletion, and nominating almost a thousand articles for deletion in a single AfD is logistically gargantuan. It took probably an hour to put the current report together, discuss it before nominating, and to tag all the pages appropriately. Doing this for a thousand articles might take days to compile and tag alone. Timothy Joseph Wood  22:17, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I would also note that those your "bad" list seem to also be creations by this same copy/paste user, and those in your "good" category do not. The intention is not to delete every such article, but specifically the ones created by this particular user, since they have just been mass creating empty articles for years now. Timothy Joseph Wood  22:35, 9 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete all for now simply for lack of content and any evidence of notability. No prejudice to any of them being recreated (as per User:Galatz) if it is possible to demonstrate articles being developed to a standard similar to the ones they have mentioned. Ajf773 (talk) 22:21, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete Israeli articles without prejudice to recreation with developed and sourced content. I strongly oppose deletion of developed and sourced articles (XXXX in American, British, Australian, etc television) and oppose this AfD serving as rationale for widespread deletion of such articles, given there are major differences to the content and construction of individual articles. -- Whats new?(talk) 23:06, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Again, see the relevant ANI thread. This doesn't relate to articles of this type; it relates to articles from this user since they all seem to be almost entirely empty articles of this type. Timothy Joseph Wood  23:45, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I was just making the general point. -- Whats new?(talk) 02:41, 11 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete - as my nomination. CAPTAIN RAJU  (✉)   19:57, 16 March 2017 (UTC)


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