Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Into the Wilde

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 redirect. Beeblebrox (talk) 00:48, 24 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Non-notable episode of minor program Orange Mike | Talk 01:35, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge into List of Running Wilde episodes. Endofskull (talk) 02:20, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to List of Running Wilde episodes. It looks to me like all the same information is already in the list, with the exception of the "Cultural References" section (and that just details some less-than-critical facts which belong on a different wiki). SteveStrummer (talk) 05:49, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• keep lack of content is not a reason to delete an article. that's a reason to add content. BEARinAbasket (talk) 05:57, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge and Redirect per above. Episode doesn't seem notable in itself and the keep vote above is a strawman argument. Redfarmer (talk) 12:06, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • it is not a strawman argument, as per WP:ATD BEARinAbasket (talk) 16:37, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • It's a strawman because no one's arguing it should be deleted because of its length. Length is irrelevant. Redfarmer (talk) 17:14, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      • SteveStrummer argued exactly that. BEARinAbasket (talk) 17:18, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
        • I interpreted that to just mean a merge wasn't necessary because all the information was already in another article. I don't see it as an argument for "too short". In any case, it's still a strawman against the nom's argument. Redfarmer (talk) 17:29, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 15:15, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge/Redirect to List of Running Wilde episodes: non-notable episode of a not-very-notable show --Logical Fuzz (talk) 22:23, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• The reason I created the article in the first place is that Mitch Hurwitz seems to love the use of running gags, both within a project, and between projects he and/or others in them have worked on. Take for example Arrested Development. As on the pages for individual episodes of Arrested Development, there are (quite large) sections for background references and callbacks. In this episode here, there was an obvious callback to Arrested Developement (David Cross's chronic use of "Come On!"). Noting this on the Epsides page would clutter it up, and furthermore, I assumed others would add other references they'd noticed; and so I created this page. I think this callback is a noteworthy observation between the two series, and having now watched all the current episodes and come across other background jokes, I think it's a matter of time before wikipedia-users will start to edit/create pages for just these reasons. Just my thoughts. Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps (talk) 22:32, 19 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • response - if these things are not taken note of by reliable sources, they have no place here. This is not a Mitch Hurwitz fanboy forum, nor a blog for "spot the references" games to be played. --Orange Mike | Talk 03:11, 20 November 2010 (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.