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The relevant guidelines are WP:FICT and WP:EPISODE which are frankly
being used
to remove a tremendous amount of content. The sensible thing to do
for all of
this is to allow some minimum of inherited notability. But I doubt anyone is
going to go for that. Almost every tv show on my watchlist is being
wiped out.
This isn't creating as much drama as the webcomics but it is far more
pervasive. Many of the Stargate editors have left simply in disgust and I
suspect this is true for other series as well.
I have actually noticed this myself, as little time as I spend working
on this area.
I think there's two reasons it's misguided, neither of which will be
accepted as valid arguments on AfD in a million years:
a) People come to the site looking for this information. If it's
something people expect to find on Wikipedia, they should probably be
able to find it there.
b) Many, many other shows have pages for every episode; I doubt if
we're getting rid of the pages for Buffy or MASH anytime soon. So if
some shows have article, then why not all, the summarily deleted fan
editor is likely to wonder. Who are these crazy inconsistent
Wikipedians? I've seen, for instance, half the episodes of a tv show
get merged and rdr'ed, but not the other half (plus a couple deleted
for good measure). In Wikipedia, inherited notability has not been a
valid argument, but in the rest of the world it would seem to make
sense to have a blanket policy -- either we allow pages for individual
episodes, or we don't. This business about "only the most notable"
episodes, which is currently in WP:EPISODE, doesn't make much sense
from a sourcing standpoint (especially for new shows), is quite hard
to enforce, and it seems is being enforced arbitrarily.
c) Also, there are plenty of other wikis besides Wikipedia; rather
than Knol, I'd love to see this stuff gently transwiki'd into Wikia if
appropriate, if it has to go.
-- phoebe
Yes, at this point inclusionism is dead and eventualism is a heresy. If enough
editors try and get WP:EPISODE's guideline status removed then one
could go DRV
all of these. I'm about to go on vacation and haven't been willing to
attempt to
do so in the past because of lack of success but if enough people
actually agree
with me there's no need not to try. This is really destroying a lot of content
and the GFDL issue pointed out by Derksen doesn't help matters at all
(although
that's more easily corretable)