Thomas Dalton wrote:
I think the infoboxes help a lot there. A lot of them include episode numbers, links to previous and next episodes, etc, which make it quite clear that they are just one of many.
All of the episode articles in this recent purge that I've looked at in detail already had well-developed infoboxes and categories grouping them together, but clearly that didn't save them. I suspect it merely allowed them to be "rooted out" more efficiently.
I think it would be best to establish once and for all that, _by itself_, "non-notability" is not a particularly good reason to delete anything. Lack of verifiability, sure - that's something that can be more objectively determined and that will still eliminate much of the problem cases that deletionists are concerned about. But notability is simply too subjective.
And, as my own personal dream solution, I'm sacrificing another chicken this Christmas to hopefully bring about some flavor of version flagging that allows people who are fundamentally offended by the inclusion of stuff that doesn't interest them to make it vanish from their sight without affecting those who still want to see it. Sort of like how we've already got CSS tricks to allow redlinks to be banished on a person-by-person basis, or stub templates, or spoiler templates, thereby allowing those things to peacefully coexist with the users that despise them. *wistful sigh*