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The result was keep. The nominator !voting Keep? Thought I'd seen it all...and somebody please clean up this article? Keeper | 76 00:35, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

List of The Simpsons writers[edit]

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It would make more sense if there were a summary of writers on List of The Simpsons episodes StewieBaby05 (talk) 15:58, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment If you are aiming for a merger then you are going about it the wrong way. Please see Wikipedia:Merging. GAtechnical (talk) 16:03, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- You have a point there. I shall take it to heart. --StewieBaby05 (talk) 16:26, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep It's arguably excessive to list the episodes that each wrote since if the writer is notable that info can be included on the writer's own page. But many of these names are notable, and therefore a list of them is valid. Hence, this can be fixed by editing. I don't think the list of writers belongs on List of The Simpsons episodes, but am willing to consider other merge targets. I hope this isn't being proposed out of partisan Family Guy vs Simpsons warring ;) --Colapeninsula (talk) 16:18, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Notable or not, even collecting mere names of notable writers puts Wikipedia (and encyclopedia) to shame. By the way, StewieBaby05 lets me tag his creations with deletion banners only when there are no other substantial contributors. --George Ho (talk) 21:19, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:59, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:59, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep as no policy-based rationale for deletion has been set forth. While it might be better or more helpfully formatted, it fundamentally is a list of notable episodes, ordered by their writers. Passes WP:CLN with flying colors, in other words. Jclemens (talk) 07:05, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - see here for how the list looked before the nominator's sweeping (and in my opinion detrimental) changes. Gran² 11:10, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I've obviously made a big mistake nominating this page for deletion. I only did it because George Ho is against the idea of pages sorting out the writers of television shows. And what's wrong with sorting writers from the most episodes written to the least? --StewieBaby05 (talk) 13:30, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- As I said, looking for writers and directors is already done in episode list. In this case, people seem to be favoring keeping it, while WP:articles for deletion/List of Curb Your Enthusiasm directors resulted as "speedy delete" (mainly due to author not objecting to deletion of lists) with just one "delete" vote. I still stand firm to my argument. Maybe three here wants it kept because the show will have probably 30 seasons in the future. --George Ho (talk) 16:00, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  I see that you've changed the layout of the page. ...I'm speechless. --George Ho (talk) 21:16, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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