Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stargate episodes written by Brad Wright


 * 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. Cirt (talk) 08:56, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Stargate episodes written by Brad Wright

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This article inefficiently duplicates information contained in List of Stargate SG-1 episodes (and the other lists of Stargate-related episodes) and in this version of the article Brad Wright. The actual list of episodes written by Wright was present in the biography and the plot summary for the individual episodes is in the list of episodes. This "split" is not justified per Summary style (in fact, see WP:AVOIDSPLIT). I suggest deleting this article and restoring the "Writing credits" section in the biographical article. Article creator notified using AFDWarning. –Black Falcon (Talk) 22:55, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: While the article is tagged as being "under construction", it has not been edited in nearly 10 days. In addition, I contend that the very concept of the article is flawed, so it would not matter even if it was being actively edited. –Black Falcon (Talk) 22:57, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as a strange and unnecessary sub-list article - all of this is covered in the main list of Stargate episodes articles. Also, it's not notable as an individual topic. – Toon (talk)  23:04, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete: I agree with the nominator and Toon; this seems like unnecessary splitting and duplication of information. Drmies (talk) 23:22, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete There is no reason at all for a lists of episodes written by one writer to exist, there is already a list of all of the episodes of the show and a column for the writers of each episode.  TJ   Spyke   23:27, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Unnecessary fork of an established set of articles. fuzzy510 (talk) 07:00, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment You don't need AFD to undo a split or merge misplaced information. - Mgm|(talk) 09:47, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * That's true, technically, but my other options were to: (1) PROD the article, which I thought someone would contest because of the "under construction" tag; or (2) redirect the article (no merge is necessary since content was mostly duplicated rather than split) and then nominate it at RFD as an implausible search title, which could have been perceived as a run-around to an actual discussion about the article. AfD seemed to me to be the most straightforward approach. –Black Falcon (Talk) 18:22, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per above and to avoid a precedent for endless combinations of "List of episodes of _______ that were (written by, directed by, produced by) _________". Mandsford (talk) 12:32, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment I think a merge and redirect(time being) would probably work just as well.Ottawa4ever (talk) 00:35, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * There's nothing to merge, really... The article duplicates content in the list of episodes and in the history of Brad Wright. –Black Falcon (Talk) 03:39, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * further coment to weak delete Okay if the table in the list of stargate episodes could be sorted then (Can this be done this way or am i misunderstanding templates) then couldnt a person just sort the table and see the episodes written by brad wright and make this article further unnessecary? I think its notable that brad wright writes alot of stargate episodes but i do see that the information is merged and on his own page, and i guess you could argue the notability of the episodes mentioned (which most dont even have wikipedia articles for) isnt really establishedOttawa4ever (talk) 14:24, 16 April 2009 (UTC).
 * The way that the list of episodes is currently structured (separate section headings for each season), an editor would need to sort the table for every season to see all of the episodes written and co-written by Wright. It would probably be less time-consuming to just visit Wright's article and view the list there. However, it definitely is possible to make the tables sortable (see Help:Sorting). –Black Falcon (Talk) 17:00, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete I've already removed the episode lists from this article back in November 2008 as crufty list of BW's SG episodes since these are all listed in the LoE. Didn't know they were restored and then split out. Also per nom. – sgeureka t•c 08:04, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete I'm a fan of the show too, but this is an unnecessary duplication of information already contained in Wikipedia. It serves no useful encyclopedic function that isn't already fulfilled also. — BQZip01 —  talk 17:05, 19 April 2009 (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.