Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1976–77

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The result was merge‎ to List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches. Sandstein 14:23, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1976–77

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Fails WP:NLIST. There are about 40(!) more of these lists, one for each season, but I refuse to bundle them all herein. (One Verdict should rule them all, and in the darkness bind them.) List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches and Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches (listed alphabetically) are quite sufficient. Clarityfiend (talk) 11:05, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 11:20, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 11:20, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 11:43, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The two "sufficient" pages you mention are mostly links to the pages you want to delete. 173.66.241.40 (talk) 12:40, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So? What's your point? Clarityfiend (talk) 00:07, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to List of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches. There is simply no need for so many pages. Esolo5002 (talk) 18:16, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Merge I think these could be in a single large list or grouped by decade rather than as dozens of season-based pages. The concept is fine since there are a lot of notable sketches (and sketches/characters with enough coverage to warrant mention in a list but not a standalone article), but the ones that have only appeared twice or otherwise lack context should be trimmed. Reywas92^Talk 22:59, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Merge is probably the best course, starting with this one. There are so many of these that we do need to have an intelligent discussion about how to (re-)organize them. Shooterwalker (talk) 14:01, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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