Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mad TV recurring characters


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The result was Delete. Michig (talk) 09:08, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Mad TV recurring characters

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Mostly trivia and fails WP:NOTABILITY in my opinion. Needless clutter that is beyond cleanup. StewdioMACK (talk) 14:19, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Basically this is fancruft, and also "per nom". Drmies (talk) 20:58, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep/Comment my default attitude would be Delete just because I don't see a single citation at the bottom of the article, and leave it there. But at the risk of plunging into an Other Stuff Exists debate, I should mention there's an extensive collection of articles regarding recurring characters and sketches related to Saturday Night Live (big example here). It strikes me as this is very much an apples-to-apples comparison.  I assume the editors who spun off the SNL pages (and there are many of them) created sub-pages for brevity on the main page, combined with a notability justification based on the show itself.  I mention this because...MadTV has an article that is clearly about a notable subject, and this sub looks like a spinoff that probably happened for the same reason.  This needs inline citations, this needs links to article about the recurring characters, this needs footnotes about the show...no question of any of that.  But I don't think this is a deletion without some conversation about whether sketch comedy shows as a whole should have subpages about content details.  -Markeer 00:13, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
 * If we're going to have a conversation about this here, I'd just like to weigh in: I think the List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches article (and all its subpages) should be deleted also, and would be happy to nominate it for AfD with consensus. StewdioMACK (talk) 04:14, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, N ORTH A MERICA 1000 05:50, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete I would think the relevant criteria would be: Notability which says that the list has to be notable on its own. There is plenty written about Stuart or other Mad TV characters but the only thing I could find on the characters as a group were fan sites and no refs in the article so I think it is clearly a delete. --MadScientistX11 (talk) 23:50, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
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