Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Magic School Bus episode guide

Magic School Bus episode guide

Magic School Bus episode guide was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was keep.

Wikipedia isn't an episode guide. If anything remarkable episodes should be mentioned in the Magic School Bus article. (Also Magic School Bus Episode Guide) - [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|^(talk)]] 11:33, Dec 1, 2004 (UTC)
Nomination has been retracted. -- [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|^(talk)]] 20:22, Dec 1, 2004 (UTC)

Then I renominate this. Not encyclopedic. Delete it! --Improv 06:28, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

• Delete, please. Elf-friend 12:00, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. I think episode guides and all the other fan things are a case for special treatment. There is a huge amount of material on Wikipedia which, while it doesn't belong in an encyclopedia, is certainly of value to fans. I think it should be split off to a new site for fans. It's not so much that the entries get in the way of readers (they don't), it's that we who want to maintain an encyclopedia are constantly running into lists of fan trivia and this takes time away from work on the encyclopedia. Keep for now until momentum builds up for an administrative decision to create a separate fan site. --[[User:Tony Sidaway|Tony Sidaway|Talk]] 12:04, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. Where does it say Wikipedia can't include episode guides? Even Jimbo Wales is in favor of including episode Guides. --Rebroad 13:14, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. It's a bit of a special case. Probably doesn'y strictly belong to wiki, but the nature of article subject is about teaching material. This guide looks to me as capturing information of great value for community. --Gtabary 13:19, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. I can see how an episode guide has value as reference material, in a way that other TV trivia doesn't. ike9898 14:55, Dec 1, 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. While ideally I'd like a separate Wiki for fan stuff, episode guides can at least give an overview of the programme, which individual articles for episodes can't (which is why I'd vote delete for an episode article). Average Earthman 16:38, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• There is no harm whatsoever in keeping this. [[User:GRider|GRider\^talk]] 17:19, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. An invaluable resource for the small fraction of the population interested in this subject. - SimonP 19:34, Dec 1, 2004 (UTC)
• An obvious keep. Quality information. Please don't nominate articles like this. Everyking 20:03, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Looks like it's unanimous. Keep. - Lucky 6.9 20:52, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. Now this is the way to do episode guides. None of this redlink-every-episode-and-write-either-a-substub-or-a-terribly-detailed-article-littered-with-fancruft-on-as-many-as-possible bullshit. -R. fiend 00:56, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Keep Everyone take a good look at this, because this is exactly how episode guides for damn near every TV/comic/radio/etc. series should be handled. Bravo! -- Netoholic @ 06:40, 2004 Dec 2 (UTC)
• Keep Deleting this page is anti-content. Other episode lists exist on wikipedia with per-episode information, and there are even articles for individual episodes. There is no reason to delete this. --Brian0918 17:04, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Keep for all the reasons given above. P Ingerson 03:20, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Token keep. —[[User:Radman1|RaD Man (talk)]] 04:42, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Episode guides are usually small sections of full articles that get broken off because they become large. As such I view this as part to the Magic School Bus show article, and I vote keep. Plus, can you think of anything else having an article under this name? There's no namespace conflict here at all! --L33tminion | (talk) 08:32, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)
• Keep for the same reasons expressed by Brian0918. If we're gonna allow episode guides and lists for some TV series articles we have to allow it for all, even if the show in question might not be of personal interest to you or me.23skidoo 06:17, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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