The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was delete. Shimeru (talk) 21:23, 14 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
useless, orphaned article tagged since April of 2009. Most of the content is already included in the American Idol articles. Alan - talk 05:09, 7 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing step 3). It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 11:44, 7 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Keep It's unsourced, and if no attempt to improve it in that department is made, then I won't be sorry to see it deleted. A measure of the success of any show that attempts to locate undiscovered talent is the extent to which its participants have gone on to success after being discovered. I'm not sure how one would easily find this anywhere else, since it would require knowledge of who has been a contestant on the show, even before one would go to that person's Wikipedia page. That the information may be in other articles is of no use if we don't have a way of navigating to those articles. Mandsford (talk) 13:37, 7 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - As an unreferenced completely orphaned article for over a year it's not helping anyone by keeping it. This may have been better poposed as a proposed deletion, but it doesn't matter now. --Pumpmeup 15:09, 7 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - I was the original tagger of the article and I always meant to come back to it if it was not improved, but I guess I just forgot about the article. This article was a recreation of material I removed from American Idol Hot 100 singles through discussion at its second nomination, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/American Idol Hot 100 singles (2nd nomination). That article would have been deleted had the information not been removed, so I do not think it would make it through an AfD on its own. Wow, it even looks like I put a merger proposal of this article and American Idol Hot 100 singles back in February 2009 and got no response. Aspects (talk) 23:51, 7 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as this list topic or a definition for this list appears to have not been published anywhere else other than Wikipedia, as it does not have a verifiable definition and contravenes the prohibition on original research as illustrated by WP:MADEUP. If it has not be been published anywhere else, and there is no evidence that it is verifiable, let alone notable list topic, then there is no rationale for inclusion. To demonstrate that this topic was not created based on editor's own whim, a verifiable definition is needed to provide external validation that this list complies with content policy. --Gavin Collins (talk|contribs) 09:40, 9 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.