Quoting phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com:
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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)