Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Results of Robot Wars UK Series 7


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The result wasDelete Gnangarra 13:43, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Results of Robot Wars UK Series 7

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I'm nominating Results of Robot Wars UK Series 7, Results of Robot Wars Tournaments and Robot Wars Merchandise for deletion. These articles have been around for a few months now and are quite frankly embarassing - they look like the sort of thing that cluttered Wikipedia in 2004, not 2007. Per WP:NOT, these lists have no place in Wikipedia. They're terribly formatted and cite nothing, and are shockingly amateurish. WP:V and WP:NOR may be issues as well. Instead of having these, any useful content in these could appear in a summary style in the main Robot Wars article if anyone wants to do that (such as listing the winners of each series and giving details of the merchandise without going into excessive detail like this does). Once again, strong delete.--h i s  s p a c e   r e s e a r c h 12:14, 27 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Merge the merchandise article into the main Robot Wars article. That article is not overly long and can absorb this information. Tag it for sourcing and if it's not sourced, delete it from there per normal editing. Weak keep Results of Robot Wars tournaments and merge the series 7 article to it. Results tables are akin to episode lists, which are acceptable under WP:SUMMARY. That they are messy is an argument for cleanup, not deletion. Otto4711 13:38, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment I've already merged some of it. What remains is unencyclopedic as Wikipedia is not a directory or a repository of all information.-h i s  s p a c e   r e s e a r c h 13:47, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep and I thought encyclopedias were repositories of human knowledge? --164.107.222.23 14:30, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

* and finally... **declaration of interest** About six months ago, various articles on Robot Wars kept cropping up in AfDs. After a slew of these, despite not being interested in the subject, I merged hundreds (it seems like) of unencyclopedic articles together to create Results of Robot Wars tournaments and List of minor Robot Wars contestants (UK) in order to keep the information in a vaguely encyclopedic form. (Thanks for the "shockingly amateurish" comment by the way nom, still I was new on Wiki then). The information could be merged back into the main article (messy) or deleted (not that I care, but you watch it being recreated by the fanboys). So a Keep for that one, for the sake of all our sanities.  Eliminator JR Talk  14:34, 27 June 2007 (UTC)  Upon reflection, yeah, with the winners in the main article, Delete.  Eliminator JR Talk  00:25, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
 * OK, here we go: Delete Results of Robot Wars UK Series 7. The information is already in Results of Robot Wars tournaments.  Eliminator JR  Talk  14:35, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Secondly, Delete Robot Wars Merchandise as trivia, or merge anything relevant back into Robot Wars.  Eliminator JR Talk  14:34, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Agree with the above, essentially to delete the merchandise article and then merge the others together.  Ark yan  &#149; (talk) 14:57, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete the merch (not notable), merge the rest as the separate article are not notable standing alone. Realkyhick 17:15, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment. I've already put the winners of each series in the main Robot Wars article; the detailed results are trivial information not necessary for an encyclopedia.-h i s  s p a c e   r e s e a r c h 17:21, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
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