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The result was delete. RL0919 (talk) 13:25, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

List of The West Wing cast members[edit]

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Contested prod. My prod rationale was "Fails WP:NOTDIR, redundant to List of The West Wing characters for the notable cast. Compare Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Bad Girls cast members." (Many more link-dumpy cast member lists have been deleted since.) The prod was contested because "needs discussion, as WP does not necessarily follow precedent". – sgeureka ^t•c 12:32, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 12:54, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - For WP:NOTDIR and clear redundancy with List of The West Wing characters (and Redirect to that page), which contains more encyclopedic information about both characters and cast members playing them. No point trying to make this page more encyclopedic when one serving the purpose already exists. Arguing precedent wasn’t followed on another page sounds like whataboutism. If policy needs to be better followed elsewhere, it should be debated (and followed) there, not ignored here. Shelbystripes (talk) 16:23, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete WP:REDUNDANT it is already here List of The West Wing characters Lightburst (talk) 21:02, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Weak delete Whilst there's nothing wrong with this list per-se, I feel that this information would be better catalogued in the form of a category rather than as a separate article. And, as already stated, much of this information is already included in List of The West Wing characters. This therefore makes the article WP:REDUNDANT. Rillington (talk) 12:49, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per my reasoning in the previous AfD: This list does not follow the MOS:TVCAST format and there is no criteria in each list denoting the importance of each cast member in the show. Ajf773 (talk) 17:06, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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