Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A Small Problem (Ben 10 episode)

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 of the debate was NO CONSENSUS. -Doc ^ask? 19:41, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A Small Problem (Ben 10 episode)

While I'm sure Ben 10 is a great animated series, it seems unencyclopedic to me to have incredibly long articles giving a blow by blow recap of every single show in the series, especially when List_of_Ben_10_episodes already has a summary of every episode. If there's a particular episode that is notable for a general-purpose encyclopedia I wouldn't be opposed to an article that adequately explains why it is notable. But this just seems like somewhat obsessive fancruft. Note: this is an omnibus nomination of a bunch of related articles. I am also nominating the following for deletion:

• And Then There Were 10 (Ben 10 episode)
• Washington B.C. (Ben 10 episode)
• The Krakken (Ben 10 episode)
• Permanent Retirement (Ben 10 episode)
• Hunted (Ben 10 episode)
• Tourist Trap (Ben 10 episode)
• Kevin 11 (Ben 10 episode)
• The Alliance (Ben 10 episode)
• Last Laugh (Ben 10 episode)
• Lucky Girl (Ben 10 episode)
• Side Effects (Ben 10 episode)
• Secrets (Ben 10 episode)

... and any others that I missed. Regards, Nandesuka 15:04, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

• Delete, obviously. Nandesuka 17:17, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep. Actually, individual episode-guide articles for television programs are commonplace here and very encyclopedic, by definition. wikipediatrix 16:58, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Not hurting anything, and what's to stop someone from nominating ST:TNG episode pages for deletion? What's the difference between prime-time and Saturday morning that makes the latter unencyclopedic? -- Grev 18:22, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, though I'll agree that I probably went a bit overboard on the level of detail. – Someguy0830 (Talk | contribs) 18:47, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, but clean up. A vast number of TV shows and cartoons have articles for each episode. However, these pages could definitely use some cleanup to make them not as bulky. --Gadren 20:56, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete all per nomination. The level of detail these articles go into is far beyond that contemplated by Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Television episodes, which in my opinion is too permissive with regard to creation of episode articles as it is. --Metropolitan90 02:16, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. I suppose if it's getting too crowded it would be all right to do a little cleanup, but it's good to be able to acess this much detail. Plus, Some of the episodes have really great screenshots. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ben 10 (talk • contribs) .
• Delete per nom & because this is a really bad precedent: not all episodes of otherwise notable shows are notable -- not all are (e.g. Ellen's coming-out episode but for the love of mike I wouldn't want to see pages on every Ellen episode). If the precedent becomes to keep, then that will trump the non-notability of dates, because the CBS Evening News and others have an episode daily and they all will get pages. Carlossuarez46 18:50, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per precedent. - CarlosSuarez, I have to break something horrible to you I just learned myself. We already do have daily pages for daily news since 2003. Really. Here: December 23, 2003, October 19, 2004, February 2, 2005... AnonEMouse 19:41, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
• Merge to a list of episodes. Heavily unencyclopaedic. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. This is not a keep vote. Stifle (talk) 23:47, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Carlossuarez46 Sumergocognito 19:07, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep or merge the information. Clean up should be appropriate enough. If viewers want to read the recap, view it at site that shows it. Users have worked hard to create such a long recap. I do, however, agree that it is rather unencyclopaedic. Arukun14 05:55, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete I don't want to see articles about every episode of every TV show ever. Runcorn 16:46, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

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.