Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pop culture influenced by Sesame Street


 * 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. ✗ plicit  11:27, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Pop culture influenced by Sesame Street

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This is just a bad WP:POVFORK of Influence of Sesame Street (a GA, setting aside the perhaps too generic name). With only three footnotes, this fails WP:IPC, WP:OR, WP:GNG, WP:NLIST, WP:INDISCRIMINATE and WP:TRIVIA as well as WP:V. And to repeat myself, we already have a properly written Good Article on this topic too, so this TV-Trope-like artifact of the early years can be safely retired now. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 08:40, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Fictional elements, Television,  and Popular culture. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here  08:40, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. At best, this subject should be covered as a section in Influence of Sesame Street, but as almost all the content of the article is indiscriminate original research, a merge would be unwarranted. Qwaiiplayer (talk) 13:54, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete - There are essentially no reliable sources being used to cover the topic, and the contents of the list is simply a list of trivia items, some of which are kind of dubious. If there had been any actual reliably sourced information on the topic, it could have been moved over to Influence of Sesame Street, but there just is not any. Rorshacma (talk) 15:24, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete, just a random list of trivia. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 16:41, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Just a note: It's not logically possible for a 2006 article to be a fork of an article that didn't exist until 4 years later.  In fact, per Special:Diff/44617687/44656573, this was a split, once again sweeping a "Trivia" section (in the original Sesame Street article) under the rug into its own article.  Uncle G (talk) 19:03, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
 * The rest of the Trivia section was removed in June 2006, a few months later. Flatscan (talk) 04:58, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete: This article is little more than a collection of original research and trivia. It is also redundant to Influence of Sesame Street, which covers a similar topic. However, the content here would add nothing to that article, so a merge is out of the question. &#8213; Susmuffin Talk 22:11, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Influence of Sesame Street per WP:ATD-R. While there may be nothing obvious meriting an immediate merge, there's also nothing here that demands it be hidden so that someone interested in mining the history should be prevented from doing so. Jclemens (talk) 02:30, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I am totally fine with a redirect. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 08:45, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete, no usable content. The one news source – about a school banning t-shirts depicting characters as gang members – has  in its URL and seems to be dead. I also oppose redirect:
 * Redirecting to Influence of Sesame Street or Sesame Street is undesirable because they contain no content relevant to the topic, which would confuse a reader following the redirect. The common wording at WP:Redirects for discussion seems to be "not mentioned at/in target", and WP:RDELETE 2 may apply. Searching for Sesame Street pop culture returns no promising targets; inappropriate ones include List of human Sesame Street characters, History of Sesame Street, and Format of Sesame Street. Also note that Influence of Sesame Street is result 6, so it can still be found without a redirect.
 * WP:RKEEP 1 does not apply because the page's history is not actually useful. I skimmed it, and the only significant additions I found were MADtv plot summaries, a Misinterpretations of Sesame Street product voices section (supported by YouTube videos, added by an IP editor, and removed within several hours), and an unsourced section about Fimbles. If the page is deleted, an interested user may request the content at WP:Requests for undeletion or Category:Wikipedia administrators willing to provide copies of deleted articles.
 * Flatscan (talk) 04:58, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete Wikipedia is not TVTropes. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 11:58, 24 April 2022 (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.