Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/US Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? notable contestants


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The result was   delete. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  00:49, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

US Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? notable contestants

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Laundry list of contestants on WWTBAM. Except for Carpenter, none of these contestants is individually notable, so why lump them all into a list? This is nothing but a list of miscellaneous information, and the first time I've seen the trivia trag at the TOP of the article. I see no way that this can be sourced. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP) 23:55, 9 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete Non-notable list that violates WP:NOT (Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information) --Mhking (talk) 00:05, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Strong delete as an unverifiable BLP disaster waiting to happen. Borderline G10 as one huge BLP violation. MuZemike 00:15, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * G10 is only for attack pages isn't it? This is hardly attack material. Ten Pound Hammer  and his otters • (Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP) 00:30, 10 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Comment I don't know that this merits its own separate article, but the website authorized by the program's producers would obviously be a verifiable source for information. None of these contestants is individually notable?  Big deal.  That's why they shouldn't have their own individual articles.  Mandsford (talk) 00:59, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment What defines a notable contestant? Is it someone who was notable before they came onto the show? Then list every celebrity contestant and nobody else. Is it someone who wins a million? Then make it Who Wants to Be A Millionaire Grand Prize Winners. Is it people who miss the first question? Notability questions can be asked ad nauseum. Eauhomme (talk) 02:36, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep but reduce the size of the article to the point where it's basically unrecognizable. The list is misnamed right now - in its current form, it's not for notable contestants, it's for events on the show that someone decided were notable.  Townlake (talk) 06:04, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete This topic is really more appropriate for a merge to the main article, but there's so much unsalvagable stuff here, merger would not really be appropriate. Townlake (talk) 14:42, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as the inclusion criteria here appear to be totally random and not anything I would have imagined as constituting game-show contestant notability. (~60 non-starter contestants are notable? really?) I tend to think that the number of really notable contestants who can be supported from independent reliable sources is small enough for the main article. WillOakland (talk) 10:06, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete The celebrities and other notable winners are already in the main WWTBAM article. The rest isn't verifiable (the current possible sources in the ext. link section are a tripod fansite without any sort of track record in factchecking and IMDB which has a known track record for publishing faulty info). - Mgm|(talk) 12:32, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete If someone wants to undertake a good pruning, and a formatting change, parts of the list could be added back into the main article. But most of the list seems rather pointless, thats why I spun it off. I can't imagine its deletion will deprive people of a solid and useful resource/reference. Nait2k4 (talk) 09:43, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:LISTCRUFT FingersOn  Roids♫  23:09, 13 March 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.