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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 12:01, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

List of Escape Pod episodes[edit]

List of Escape Pod episodes (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)

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Episode list of a podcast, "referenced" only to its own self-published web presence, a user-generated discussion forum and the blogs of directly affiliated people. And even worse, nearly all of the links (the blogs are the only ones being used as actual footnotes) are just embedded directly into the table itself in violation of WP:ELNO. Wikipedia does not exist as a platform for creating directories of weblinks; the titles in an episode list, whether for a television or radio or web or podcast series, may link either internally to a Wikipedia article about the episode or nowhere at all, and not to offsite content. Bearcat (talk) 07:27, 2 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk • mail) 12:07, 2 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk • mail) 12:07, 2 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Query Given Escape Pod (podcast), isn't this just the bog-standard breakout of an episode list, such as, say, List of Blake's 7 episodes to pick a random example? - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 00:45, 3 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Episode lists are still supposed to be referenced somewhere other than WP:ELNO-violating links to its own self-published content about itself. They're not "bog-standard" in all cases; they're permissible if they meet our referencing standards, but are very frequently not kept at all if they can't be referenced properly. Bearcat (talk) 16:50, 4 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Wikipedia is not a web host. Ajf773 (talk) 01:40, 8 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science fiction-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 13:36, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nom and Ajf773. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 14:13, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• delete per nom. L3X1 (distænt write) 17:01, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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