Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robot Wars Episodes

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The result was keep. CitiCat ^♫ 00:07, 6 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Robot Wars Episodes (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

This article is an unnecessary content fork from Robot Wars; the latter could quite comfortably contain any encyclopaedic detail in the former. Mark H Wilkinson ^{(t, c)} 10:41, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletions. -- --Rrburke^(talk) 14:12, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Speedy Keep. List of XXX episodes articles are extremely common on Wikipedia and very encyclopedic. Bravedog 17:12, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - I expect it was split off for a reason, looking at the article it's still pretty long. Created a seperate list of episodes fork is common practise in TV show articles, and I don't see what's unencyclopedic about it... Whilst I don't wish to use WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS, other lists of an identical nature are on here. I would use an AfD of one of them that was kept as precedence but, well, I don't actually remember an AfD on *any* List of Show X episodes pages. The page needs heavy cleanup and a rename, sure, but I don't really see any reason to delete. AllynJ (talk | contribs) 18:14, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per AllynJ.--SarekOfVulcan 19:55, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep In this case largely trivial, but such episode lists are well-established. Eusebeus 19:57, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep There are alot of episode guides on Wikipedia. Tbo ¹⁵⁷talk 21:35, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Question: While lists of episodes are common on Wikipedia, these shows are effectively plotless, so the article is largely a table of contestants, listing the winners. Does this go against WP:NOT#DIR? Do we list episodes of sporting events and game shows with tables of those winners as well? If not, how is this different? How is this encyclopedic? / edg ☺ ★ 21:05, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep: It badly needs references and sources, but it is a useful page and should be allowed a chance to get sources. StuartDD ( t • c ) 21:21, 4 September 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.