joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
Ok, I've asked at that page if there is any real consensus for the guideline. If you have an opinion, feel free to comment. I'm about to go on vacation now, and will leave therefore thankfully miss any ensuing drama.
I've chipped in too now, for folks who want a direct link it's at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Television_episodes#Is_there_any_actual_consensus_for_this_guideline_at_all.3F. I'm of two minds here whether I should start actually reverting and restoring some of the more obviously wrong-headed deletions that have already been done; on the one hand of course revert-warring is bad, but on the other hand I'm worried about the fait accompli gambit that appears to be in play here.
Really, this is a stupid overreach of notability-mongering. Any given random episode of a show like Scrubs has been seen by millions of people and is going to be available in DVD box-sets for years and years to come, that _alone_ puts it above 90% of the articles we have about books or wee little towns or dead congressmen or what have you. We've got articles on hundreds of asteroids that are known only by a few orbital parameters in a catalogue someplace and there's nary a complaint. I'm extremely annoyed.