Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time


 * 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 no consensus (default to keep). - Bobet 18:35, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time

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I don't believe that an individual magazine article meets notability standards, nor does the list that this one comprises, which is neither a prize nor an award. Mr. A. 23:52, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. M1ss1ontom a rs2k4 (T 06:40, 11 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Comment: The similar 50 Greatest Game Shows of All Time (GSN) was kept after being listed for deletion for basically the same reason. There are a lot of articles like this. Just in TV, there is 50 Greatest Game Shows of All Time (TV Guide) and TV Guide's List of the 50 Worst TV Shows of All Time, 100 Greatest Kids' TV shows, and 100 Greatest British Television Programmes. Angela. 03:01, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment: An article just for the TV guide article does seem silly, but there is not yet a List of television programs considered the greatest ever as there is for the movies. Could this not be merged with some other TV popularity article to create such a thing? Lotusduck 08:14, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment: Lotusduck's suggestion makes sense. --Mr. A. 12:26, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep or Merge with TV Guide: it's a helpful list to have archived here, and it is a notable list. Merging it within the parent magazine site seems reasonable though. --Jajasoon 12:32, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep while technically it was a news report (sort of) it was also, well, news. Just a quick google search shows that the article was covered and reported on by CBS News.  Sometimes the news covers the news, that's not the fault of this article's editors.  Now that being said, I think the mandate of this article should be extremely limited.  The "criticisms" section has always been awash in POV and OR (completely uncited).  It's a small section, but seems to be a popular one for editors to complain that their favorite TV show didn't make the list (in my opinion). -Markeer 14:53, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
 * merge with TV Guide does seem a reasonable solution, though I lean more towards delete. I don't think a magazine's "best-of list" is worthy of an article; if they do another feature like this 5 years from now, the list will change drastically. Similarly, nobody will post a list of TV Guide's 1978 feature "The 50 All-Time Best TV Shows", because nobody cares. Also, as a suggestion, would the article fail WP:NPOV, especially the part about Wikipedia's "Anglo-American Bias"? AllGloryToTheHypnotoad 00:26, 14 March 2007 (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.