Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shock to the System

 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 ambiguous.

I count 4 clear "delete" votes and 3 variations on "keep" votes (evenly split between "keep as is" and "keep as merge" - yes, I know it's hard to evenly split an odd number of votes). One "keep" vote by a relatively new user somewhat discounted. Failing to reach a clear concensus to delete, the decision defaults to keep (in some form) for now.

Noting that there is a clear majority to delete and finding myself most persuaded by the "merge" arguments, I am going to exercise my discretion and call this one as a "merge and redirect". Rossami (talk) 05:32, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Shock to the System
This article is nothing more than a fan-written plot summary of an episode of a TV series. The series as a whole (Static Shock) has a page on Wikipedia, which already provides plenty of detail (arguably excessive itself) about the series. Since Wikipedia does not strive to become an episode guide, I feel the material should be deleted. Tverbeek 02:00, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge to Static Shock and delete this article. Tygar 03:20, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: "Merge and delete" is not a generally allowable vote because it destroys the attribution history required by GFDL.  Do you mean "merge and redirect"?  Rossami (talk)
 * Keep or merge and redirect to a list of Static Shock episodes. Needs to be trimmed of extraneous detail if merged.  -Sean Curtin 04:05, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, fancruft. Megan1967 22:45, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, but expand to include commentary, behind-the-scenes information, etc. making this something useful, not just a synopsis. Don't merge, because if every Static Shock episode ends up merged, the article will be too big!  Miss Pippa 09:57, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. True, but then why does a series like Star Trek have an article for almost every episode. -- Riffsyphon1024 10:01, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Because a series like the original Star Trek is notable enough to warrant it, and has people interested in doing it. Individual episodes of ST:TOS have been springboards for movies, countless novels, and megabytes of fanfic, and the topics of academic papers.  If Static Shock turns out to be as influential as ST:TOS, it'll eventually get similar attention from a legion of fans.  But this article was created by a single fan with (by his own description) Asperger's Syndrome who has since abandoned the project. The addition of commentary and behind-the-scenes info might make it a better article, but that seems rather unlikely when no one's even bothered to copyedit this synopsis, or even to write a synopsis of episode 2 (let alone 3-52). The series as a whole is notable, and I'm working on improving that article to reflect that; this episode by itself is not. Tverbeek 14:58, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - We do have episode guides for bigger and more notable series, but we've yet to set a bar. If I were to set that bar, I wouldn't go that low. kelvSYC 03:33, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, concur with KelvSyc. Radiant! 13:31, Mar 7, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, but needs refs - David Gerard 17:44, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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