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*<small class="delsort-notice">'''Note''': This debate has been included in the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Television|list of Television-related deletion discussions]]. <!--Template:Delsort--></small> <small>-- [[User:Gene93k|• Gene93k]] ([[User talk:Gene93k|talk]]) 19:43, 13 August 2009 (UTC)</small> |
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*'''Keep''' These articles are verifiable, and useful. A TV historian could very well be interested in which shows a specific program was competing against in its time slot. [[User: Zagalejo|Zagalejo]]'''[[User talk:Zagalejo|^^^]]''' 19:52, 13 August 2009 (UTC) |
*'''Keep''' These articles are verifiable, and useful. A TV historian could very well be interested in which shows a specific program was competing against in its time slot. [[User: Zagalejo|Zagalejo]]'''[[User talk:Zagalejo|^^^]]''' 19:52, 13 August 2009 (UTC) |
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*:A "TV historian"? Are we joking now? Made-up titles and professions aren't the best way to save something. [[User:Ironholds|Ironholds]] ([[User talk:Ironholds|talk]]) 19:55, 13 August 2009 (UTC) |
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List of United States network television schedules
- List of United States network television schedules (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View log)
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This is an AfD not just for List of United States network television schedules but also for all the schedules under it. There are about 90 of them, so apologies for not listing them all.
This is a classic case of Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not, particularly WP:NOTDIRECTORY. There is no use for the schedule of every US TV network since 1946, and the one vaguely valid argument (a way of navigating) falls flat on its face. Who goes "I want to see a list of 1950s television programs. I know! I'll look for a list of 1950s television programs on between 3 and 3:30pm on a certain US network in 1952"? This is of no use as an encyclopaedic article, and Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of encyclopaedic information. Ironholds (talk) 16:49, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
- Delete how did this survive so long?!?! Jeni (talk) 16:52, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
- Delete everything: Who came up with the idea of putting television schedules in an encyclopedia? Joe Chill (talk) 18:33, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
- Delete article only, but keep the schedules in the boxes below and the articles that they link to. -Andrew (talk) 18:40, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
- Keep The nomination and the above deletion arguments amount to "I Don't Like It!" and fail as reasons to delete the article. WP:NOT says "Wikipedia is not a directory," but also says ".. mention of major events, promotions or historically significant programme lists and schedules (such as the annual United States network television schedules) may be acceptable." Please go and change WP:NOT, if a consensus there favors your views, rather than just coming here and ignoring it or misrepresenting what it says. The U.S. network TV schedules for every year included in this list has been the subject of significant coverage in multiple reliable and independent sources. Books have been written about them, such as "The complete directory of TV prime time network TV shows 1946-present," by Brooks and Marsh, Ballantine Books, 1979, (which I happen to own) and more recent similar works. The network TV schedules have been the subject each year of articles in major national newspapers and magazines. Thus it satisfies WP:Notability. A master list such as this is a useful and encyclopedic organizing tool which provides access to the individual lists. People study the history of TV, even if some of the delete voters here cannot imagine wanting information about historical programming. It should be noted that network TV schedules have been nominated for deletion in the past and kept or kept due to no consensus for deletion. See Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/The_US_network_TV_schedule_articles(no consensus, default to Keep), Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1997-1998 United States network television schedule (Keep), Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1985-86 United States network television schedule (Saturday morning) (Keep), Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1983-84 United States network television schedule (Saturday morning) (Keep), Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2007-08 United States network television schedule (Keep), Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1982-83 United States network television schedule (Keep). Edison (talk) 19:40, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:43, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
- Keep These articles are verifiable, and useful. A TV historian could very well be interested in which shows a specific program was competing against in its time slot. Zagalejo^^^ 19:52, 13 August 2009 (UTC)