Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Inheritors (The Outer Limits)


 * 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 speedy keep per WP:SK. North America1000 15:38, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

The Inheritors (The Outer Limits)

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Is this WP:NOTABLE? I couldn't establish that it was. It has been in CAT:NN for 12 years, hopefully we can now resolve it one way or the other. Boleyn (talk) 14:20, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 14:42, 8 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep per List of The Outer Limits (1963 TV series) episodes. This iconic TV series broadcast 49 episodes and each episode has its own Wikipedia article. Deletion of the series' sole two-part episode would leave a void in the complete record. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 14:34, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:NEXIST. Looking at other Outer Limits episode pages, I see references to a few non-fiction analyses of the program.
 * The Outer Limits: The Official Companion by David J. Schow and Jeffrey Frentzen, Ace Books (1986) — republished as The Outer Limits Companion by GNP/Crescendo (1998)
 * The Outer Limits at 50 by David J. Schow, Creature Features (2014)
 * These are out-of-print and I can't immediately access them online, but I see on other Outer Limits articles that they have non-fiction information on each episode. I'm also seeing some coverage here:
 * Gender in Science Fiction Films, 1964-1979: A Critical Study by Bonnie Noonan, MacFarland & Co (2015)
 * The Life and Death of Rising Star Steve Inhat — Gone Too Soon by Linda Alexander, Bear Manor Media (2018)
 * "The Outer Limits" by David J. Schow, Twilight Zone magazine vol 4 no 6 (1985)
 * Cinefantastique vol 30, pg 93
 * As Roman Spinner said, every Outer Limits episode has its own page, and most of them are in the same state; I'm not sure why this article was nominated in particular. Is there a consensus about which television shows get episode pages for every episode and which don't? -- Toughpigs (talk) 19:20, 12 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep for now, with reservations. I think there is a larger issue with TV series in general, where some episodes are notable, others are not, and currently we have pages for them all. I'm the original creator of this page, and many other Outer Limits episode pages, along with another user (Motor).  In over a decade, we haven't really done any work to improve the content.  There appears to be only one important published source for this TV series, which has appeared in (I believe) three editions beginning in the 1980s (Schow, noted above).  Right now all the episodes are in a linked series of pages and it might be a lot of work to reorganize.  Certainly the series is an important one historically and artistically, and some episodes have been written about extensively (those authored by Harlan Ellison, of course, but some others too).  A Blu-ray edition was released in 2019 containing new commentaries full of historical information, but these are audio, not written.  It's hard to quote from those in verifiable way.  The Inheritors is considered to be a "good" episode from the series, but nothing strikes as particularly notable apart from its belonging to the show.  In the long run, I would prefer not to lose the data content of the pages, even for less notable episodes, because this is an anthology series; thus the information is hard to summarize concisely in a standard episode list.  I think artistically significant episodes should have their own page and lesser episodes don't really need a page, but if we delete them we will lose all the back links for important actors of the day, etc.  So, I'm undecided and would err on the side of keeping rather than deleting.  After all, WP has lots of room. Slowmover (talk) 20:03, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Withdraw nomination per thoughtful comments above. Boleyn (talk) 20:29, 14 March 2020 (UTC)


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