Nathan Awrich wrote:
I think there is a specific standard for the notability of fiction for good reason. I'm not sure that having been seen by millions of glazer over eyeballs is necessarily enough for something to be notable
Excuse me, but "glazed-over eyeballs?" These are our readers and our editors we're talking about. Please refrain from dismissing their interests as unimportant because you don't share them. It would be just as inappropriate to refer to the authors and users of our sports-related articles as "overmuscled jocks", or our politician-related articles as "politics weenies", or whatever other derogatory characterization one might come up with.
If you don't find a subject area interesting to you, just _leave it alone_.
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may be, but I would argue that there have been tons of episodes of tons of TV shows and in 5 years no one will remember 99 percent of them, let alone cite them for anything. Additionally, they present clear RS problems - how often do reliable sources publish a treatment of a Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode?
I expect every one of them has a DVD with a commentary track available, for starters. A quick Google search also turns up http://www.tv.com/buffy-the-vampire-slayer/show/10/summary.html, http://www.buffyguide.com/, http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/buffy/, http://www.buffyworld.com/, and http://chosentwo.com/buffy/ on the first page of results. Some of these may not be as useful as others but I have a hard time believing that _none_ of them are reliable sources.
Unless you meant perhaps peer-reviewed journal articles?
I wouldn't go undeleting them unless you first get approval on policy changes. I'm sure the fan-types will support you, but the community in general seems to be leaning away from your position.
That doesn't seem to be the case over on the talk page of WP:EPISODE. So if the community in general hasn't approving of the guideline that was used as justification for deleting them, they can be deleted, but they can't be undeleted until everyone agrees? Double standard, no thanks. The "default" position should be to refrain from deleting when in doubt.