Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/WABC-TV News Team


 * 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 move. W.marsh 17:05, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

WABC-TV News Team

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This article falls under Fancruft. The information can already be found within the main WABC-TV article, and creating a separate page for this non-notable information is not only a waste of space, but only serves a small group of people and not the entire Wikipedia community. There are also various links to articles about these personalities, and most of those should also be deleted for the same reasons, and probably more. Rollosmokes 04:19, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete this list, it's rather pointless and cruft-y, and totally unencyclopedic. Per nom, this list only serves a small group. Ten Pound Hammer  • (((Broken clamshells • Otter chirps))) 04:34, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - per above Lipsticked Pig 04:49, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment The number of blue links in this list makes me hesitant to delete. Having enough notable alumni would seem to make this topic notable.  Wouldn't it make more sense to nominate the articles about the personalities first?  I'm also unsure about the nominator's assertion that the article "only serves a small group of people."  Isn't that argument the inverse of WP:USEFUL? Maxamegalon2000 05:54, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment - As I mentioned in the reasoning for AfD, this information is already within the main WABC-TV article, which was last reverted by me. So, no information or links would be lost if WABC-TV News Team is deleted; only the creation of a separate page is fancruft and unencyclopedic.  Rollosmokes 06:28, 3 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Move to List of WABC-TV personalities as a proper subpage of WABC-TV, of which a full third of visual space is bulleted lists of people associated with the station now or in the past. (Given it's in NYC and it's a corporate O&O station, these people are more frequently notable than a typical franchise station, and the station is the source of network programming such as Regis & ....) --Dhartung | Talk 05:55, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment: I'd rather see the "Current Personalities" remain in the main article, rather than a subpage, however the notability of many of those entries is suspect. "Past Personalities" is mostly trivia I think; the fact that they once worked at WABC-TV would be notable on their own article pages, but not here. Plenty of exceptions such as Howard Cosell for this major franchise however. Lipsticked Pig 06:14, 3 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep. Informative list of notable personalities.  And please stop referecing "cruft".  It's neither policy nor guideline.  --Nricardo 22:00, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep Very useful navigation guide. I am surprised at the number of news people that have full biographies. The news divisions at major stations have a long history, and need a good navigation device. Keep the descriptive paragraph at the station page, and delete the list there. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 00:37, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Move to List of WABC-TV personalities and keep, per Dhartung. Being on a major network affiliate in the #1 TV market makes most of them notable, and the list is to large to be merged back into WABC-TV. DHowell 02:30, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment: Moving to another article defeats the purpose of this AfD. The information is not too large to be merged back into the main article, and can be pared down considerably.  Rollosmokes 02:31, 9 June 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.