Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Who Killed Tom King?


 * 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 keep. Mango juice talk 16:58, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Who Killed Tom King?

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 * Delete - Wikipedia articles are not plot summaries. AlanSmith17 12:21, 17 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Strong Keep - Nothing like this plot had ever been done before, it contains a full guide, which would not fit in the Emmerdale article. Thenthornthing 11:53, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Exceptionally weak keep - only because it contains some details about the out-of-universe aspects of the storyline. However, the obsessive level of in-universe detail is a clear violation of style guidelines and the article needs a massive re-write to emphasise the out-of-universe impact and reduce the plot details by about 75-80%. If the article is kept but not re-written, I would support deletion when it's nominated again. Otto4711 12:23, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film and TV-related deletions.   -- John Vandenberg 14:33, 17 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep per Thenthornthing, as much as I hate Emmerdale, this storyline was the first "interactive plot" in Britain I believe. Bravedog 16:40, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak keep If the first of its kind in the UK claims are true, then I see no problem. However, it is very, very in universe, and needs to be hacked down a lot if it is kept.  Kwsn (Ni!) 20:24, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as absurdly detailed and wholly inappropriate. So non-encyclopedic that it might be best to start again. DGG
 * Comment This is a nightly soap opera comprising oif over 300 (yes 300!!!) episodes each year. It is hardly a shorter 23 episode run of a US series. The programme covers so many minor and dragged out storylines to fill as padding throughout the year. This is just one of them. In a ratings ploy the producers plugged it alot - just as they did with the death of Trisha, plane crash, increase to 5 eps a week etc. As I stated before this has to go or be merged into the main Emmerdale article AlanSmith17 11:21, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
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