Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Buffy the Vampire Slayer plot summary

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 delete. --Core desat 06:27, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer plot summary

Delete - this is a series-long plot summary and Wikpedia articles are not plot summaries. Otto4711 06:16, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Strong Delete Cut and dry violation of WP:NOT about plot summaries Corpx 06:24, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete is this a joke?--Sefringle^Talk 06:34, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - clear cut. --Haemo 11:32, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - just say NOT to plots! Arkyan • ^(talk) 15:05, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment, moved to wikia:buffy. Carlosguitar 15:08, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Number 5 7 15:44, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: per above. Aside from any other consideration, this is information already completely duplicated in the individual season ep articles already on Wikipedia. Ravenswing 16:00, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This article provides a brief summary of the plot arc for each of the seasons, without giving a blow-by blow description of everything that happens in each episode. A series such as this has events confined within an episode , but also has a season long plot arc, which is not contained in the capsule summaries of the individual episodes. Per WP:IAR we are not required to slavishly follow every word of WP:NOT when it removes encyclopedic content that editors see as important to understanding the main subject, such as a successful TV series. "Keep" results from AFDs such as this can provide evidence that the alleged policy does not reflect practice and needs to be revised. If the consensus is against keeping this as a standalone article, then I suggest the closing admin merge this to the main article to replace "Plot summary - The original television series". There are reliable and independent sources to back up such season-long plot summaries, to be found in the numerous sources listed in Buffy studies (no kidding!) Edison 16:02, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I may now be in the small minority, but I continue to think such articles a reasonable way to provide plots, rather than individual episodes. For people (like me) who rarely watch these series, it is valuable to have some idea of what is going on, and that is a reasonable function for an encyclopedia that covers popular culture at all--to discuss it, it is necessary to say what it is. WP:NOT is subject to reasonable interpretation, like all policy--in this case, to say that the plot should not make up the majority of the overall discussion. And there no longer seem to be any individual season plot summaries.DGG (talk) 16:08, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Article is just plot, fails WP:NOT#PLOT by design. Jay32183 18:43, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Merge with main article. Much as I despise the hypocrisy of a system finds 400+ articles about Buffy the Vampire Slayer to be encylopedic, yet dismisses many grownup submissions on one Wikicommandment or another, I see no reason to delete a summary of what happened during the series. Merge, rather than keep, for the reason stated above... there are 400+ articles already. Mandsford 01:54, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- So the reason you don't want this deleted is that there are other articles that should be and that they should be because they are not "grown up"? WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS and WP:IDONTLIKEIT might make good reads. Jay32183 02:07, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Might be... might well be. Mandsford 15:53, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Plot summaries are supposed to "summarize" the plot, not describe them. Anything that says "Plot of ____" is describing it, in my opinion Corpx 19:12, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete unless a good reason can be given stating that some of this info should be added to the main article plot summary. In that case, merge. — Deckill er 03:28, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. An encyclopedia is not a story book. --maclean 05:32, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 22:55, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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.