Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Saturday Night Live Number 548

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. &mdash; mark &#9998; 10:05, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Saturday Night Live Number 548
When this article was first posted, it contained some lightly reworked copyvio content from here. Now that I've removed the copyvio, there's pretty much nothing there. I don't see anything wrong with articles about TV episodes per se, but this kind of falls under the bar of notability for me. For SNL, articles about notable sketches or characters are much more useful than articles about individual episodes. /s&#618;zl&#230;k &#762;/  05:30, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC) This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.
 * Delete, unencyclopedic. Wyss 05:53, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, SNLcruft. Megan1967 06:10, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge or keep, interesting to SNL fans, Halle Berry Fans, Britney Spear fans, etc. Kappa 07:00, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, SNLcruft. DaveTheRed 08:58, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete this article, move info to the SNL article. Tygar 09:01, Mar 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, there seems to be precedent for keeping episode articles...or are The Simpsons and Star Trek the only ones? Funnily enough, I remembered which songs Britney sang on the show, so I added that. Everyking 09:06, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Begin the Great LorneCruft Purge. Delete -- Riffsyphon1024 09:30, Mar 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Samboy 10:38, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. As noted above, popular sketches and characters are the natural units to report on with SNL, rather than entire episodes.  Unlike the episodes of Star Trek and The Simpsons which–though probably only borderline notable–at least tell a cohesive story, episodes of SNL are at best only loosely tied together.  Performers who have made notable SNL appearances can have those appearances mentioned in their respective articles, and should appear in List of Saturday Night Live hosts and musical guests. --TenOfAllTrades | Talk 15:19, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into an article on the season. - SimonP 17:39, Mar 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. What encyclopedic value can there be in just a list of sketches that were done in the same show?   --BM 19:57, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per Ten. Radiant! 20:07, Mar 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, the significant information, the host and the musical guest, are covered elsewhere. -R. fiend 02:14, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - verifiable, of third-party interest - David Gerard 14:58, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong keep. It strikes me as perfectly reasonable, and completely within the spirit of Wikipedia, to have this level of detail on a notable and sometimes important cultural phenomenon.  Wasn't it Jimbo Wales who, early on, supported the idea of an article for every Simpsons episode?  How in the world is this project, with useful links to real people and events, any less worthy?  Might it not be helpful for someone searching for information on, say, Ralph Nader, to be able to find information on the date and content of his SNL appearance?  Similarly, if someone in the future is researching popular viewpoints on Gerald Ford, might not they find useful to be able to find dates, subjects, and details of SNL sketches featuring Ford?  Jgm 16:04, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)