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The result was delete. postdlf (talk) 18:30, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

List of most watched Disney Channel series premieres[edit]

List of most watched Disney Channel series premieres (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)

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• Delete. List, containing 19 entirely unsourced entries and just one with an actual citation for it, of programs ranked by the ratings for their series premieres. This is ephemeral WP:TRIVIA, not an important or noteworthy characteristic of the shows in its own right -- a show's audience can grow or shrink over time, with one episode attracting half or twice or one-tenth or five hundred times as many viewers as another, so the ratings for one episode in isolation aren't that interesting or encyclopedic. And again, the biggest problem here is that the data is 95 per cent unsourced. Bearcat (talk) 21:34, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 22:24, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 22:24, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I've been very busy the past few weeks. I will work on getting sources for the other 19 very soon. Editor49 (talk) 22:27, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Even with sources, why would it be a thing that belonged in an encyclopedia? Bearcat (talk) 23:32, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge to List of Disney Channel series Delete – this information, if sourced, might be valuable at List of Disney Channel series (see, for example, this). But it's not worthy of a standalone article. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 05:48, 17 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • However, it should be deleted if it is not sourced. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 12:41, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete We're not Disney Channel's promotional department. No point in a redirect as nobody outside crufters cares about the ratings of kid's shows (and the only ones who do reside on TV by the Numbers and cruft up the kid's show articles with needless ratings data sourced from comments sections), and these premieres aren't even close to the biggest cable audiences of all time. Nate • (chatter) 02:28, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete (no merging nor redirect). Unsourced non-encyclopedic article and list. Ajf773 (talk) 11:22, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • To be fair, I said merge if it was sourced. Again, I consider it worthy encyclopedic info (as part of a larger article, not as a standalone article), but only if it is sourced. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 12:41, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per Bearcat. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 05:21, 19 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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