Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Val De La O Show


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The result was   keep. KTC (talk) 08:03, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Val De La O Show

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Non-notable topic masquerading as a BLP of a non-notable person Legacypac (talk) 08:10, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions.  B E C K Y S A Y L E S  08:48, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
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 * Comment - I looked at the Associated Press article. That he was "the only syndicated television variety show produced in Spanish in the United States" seems possibly significant, but it was also syndicated to 32 markets, including the largest (NY, LA, SF) and attracted A-list guests like "Kirk Douglas, Muhammad Ali and Don Knotts". I would be shocked, given all that, if the show were not notable. As the show pre-dates the Internet, I'm having trouble finding other sources. HighBeam, Google News Archives, and Questia gave me nothing useful. I'm finding some unreliable sources and a couple minor local sources, but there's got to be more. Maybe someone with more knowledge of where to access Spanish-language newspaper/magazine archives from the 60s-80s could add some and it would be an easy keep. I will say, however, that there's a lot more information in the article than exists in the AP article (i.e. the article is horribly unsourced). --&mdash;  Rhododendrites talk  \\ 17:12, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep - I agree with the comment above, since this was from the pre-internet era, there has to be other physical and newspaper/magazine sources. In fact, after a few minutes, I found more sources from national publications Television/Radio Age (magazine), Broadcasting & Cable, and Nuestro, and culturally significant publications like "La Herencia Del Norte". I also agree with the above comment, that it is under-sourced; but given the information I can find, I too would be shocked if this weren't notable. Smile Lee (talk) 19:11, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
 * — Note to closing admin: Smile Lee (talk • contribs) is the creator of the page that is the subject of this XfD. &mdash;  Rhododendrites  talk  \\ 22:02, 10 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep Some of the sources are a bit flimsy while others appear to  be quite sound even if they  were found through  Google Book. And there are other sources out  there if one cares to  dig  deep  enough  through  the search  engines. A show that  ran for 25 years (even if it  was commissioned by  different  TV companies over that  time)  is not  going  to  be without  significant  mentions in  print  media somewhere. Unsourced or poorly  sourced is not  neccessarily a case for deletion. The biographical  part should be cut out. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 05:48, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
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