Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Star Wars marathon (3rd nomination)


 * 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 and redirect to Marathon (media). As says: non-notable intersection of Star Wars and movie marathon. Randykitty (talk) 16:18, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Star Wars marathon
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I declined PROD as article previously survived AfD as a no-consensus. However, article is little more than a neologism, so I will take back to AfD. Safiel (talk) 21:55, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete - seems to garner passing third-party mentions but doesn't pass the significant hurdle. --EEMIV (talk) 23:38, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:31, 21 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep It meets WP:GNG since many sources says there are watching marathons. Frmorrison (talk) 20:01, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I agree and it's not defamatory while probably giving someone some small pleasure. Superfluous information is still information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.86.121.35 (talk • contribs)
 * "It's informative" and "it doesn't hurt" are not compelling reasons to retain content. This hooks back into the underlying policy that Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. --EEMIV (talk) 00:41, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Kind of funny to say as Wikipedia is definitely a collection of information that can be subjectively considered informative or harmless or both... depending upon who one asks. What IS compelling, no matter the topic being discussed, is that notability is found through coverage and a suitable stub is not contrary to policy or guideline. And, as this article has a very specific inclusion description set forth in its lede, it is not indiscriminate ( See WP:Discriminate ). That said, I do not think this short article would over-whelm the base topic at Star Wars. Merge and set a Redirect to a new section at Cultural impact of Star Wars unless expanded to show real-world relationships... through wider coverage, recognition, and analysis and commentary of the topic in secondary sources.  Schmidt,  Michael Q. 01:43, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Note: Movie marathon exists.--Coin945 (talk) 08:48, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Redirect/Delete - It's nothing more than a specific type of binge-watching. I can't find anything that suggests these marathons are anything particularly notable/significant/different. Would do better redirected to Cultural impact of Star Wars. mol  uɐɯ  22:33, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Merge into Star Wars. It's pretty much just focuses on a specific movie series, which can be covered in a few sentences in another article. However, just for future reference, if there is a TV show or a movie that has an ability to be watched in a marathon (in which the act of doing the marathon becomes a cultural phenomena), then perhaps that could warrant its own article. Such as, for example, the TV series 24, which hypothetically, people might watch it for 24 hours straight, which could conceivably be a cultural phenomena independent of the actual television series itself. The key way to distinguish a television marathon or movie marathon from the actual movie/show itself (specifically, to create another article about the act of the marathon), is that people are doing the marathon for any reason other than that they like the show. Star Wars marathon fails this litmus test, because people only watch it because they really like Star Wars. A 24 marathon would pass (if covered in significant sources), if the people watching it did the marathon because a season of 24 is 24 hours long, which is the length of a day, so people would watch it not because they like the TV show, but because they want to spend all day watching TV. Yet this test only precludes having its own article, because the Star Wars marathon should be included in the main Star Wars article, for example, in a few sentences, as it is (barely) covered in secondary sources. If it had more coverage, it could have its own section. Grognard 123chess456 (talk) 03:03, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I'd say that article suffers from the same badness as the subject here. mol  uɐɯ  20:01, 29 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   08:06, 30 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete or redirect to one of the suggested places. There's just not that much to say about it. Businesses stage marathons and fans watch them. Movie marathon is so gloriously awful I've nominated it for oblivion. Clarityfiend (talk) 10:27, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Merge seems like a good idea. Otherwise delete and redirect it to the appropriate place. Protonk (talk) 13:55, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete or redirect. Sure, the phrase exists, but so do a lot of other types of binge-watching parties — so we don't require a separate article about this phenomenon as a topic in its own right. Bearcat (talk) 18:12, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep, Star Wars is very notable, so why not this? RWCasinoKid (talk) 18:39, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Notability is not inherited. mol  uɐɯ  19:36, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep per Coin945 Movie marathon does exist that includes Star Wars and to Clarityfriend that do you meant by "suggested places". 174.91.75.150 (talk) 01:20, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Merge (or Delete) to (a better) Marathon (media) article or to the main Star Wars one. There is no need for every franchise and TV series to have its own X Marathon page.--Gonnym (talk) 10:46, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Redirect to movie marathon. This is a non-notable intersection of star wars and movie marathon.  Trivia.  A few events, no secondary source coverage.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 14:07, 11 September 2014 (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.