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The result was redirect to List of television programs#Listings by name. DGG ( talk ) 01:43, 4 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

List of television programs by name[edit]

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I grant that this might have made some sense in 2005, when the number of articles we had about television series was a lot smaller than it is today. But now, the topic is simply too massive — to even approach completeness, it would have to contain tens of thousands more entries than it does. Lists of television series constrained for some characteristic, such as genre or network or nationality or decade, would be legitimate, and many such lists already exist — but a unified master list of all television series that have Wikipedia articles is just too massive to be maintainable at all. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 22:34, 27 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per WP:SALAT, which states, in relevant part: "Lists that are too general or too broad in scope have little value, unless they are split into sections. For example, a list of brand names would be far too long to be of value." Here, I think we can safely say that the names of television programs are the functional equivalent of brand names for the purposes of determining whether a list of this nature should be deleted (see also WP:INDISCRIMINATE). -- Notecardforfree (talk) 00:44, 28 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete The category system sorts this much better than this article could ever hope to with only 10% of the information. Nate • (chatter) 04:18, 28 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per all above. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 05:47, 28 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment I created a television template after Template: List of films by letter. The template is Template: List of television programs by letter. I'm recruiting the frequent editor of List of television programs by name to help me in the move. --Mr. Magoo and McBarker (talk) 06:43, 29 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I saved the page in my User:Mr. Magoo and McBarker/sandbox, so deletion is safe now. --Mr. Magoo and McBarker (talk) 00:21, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Redirect I moved the entirety of that page to Template: List of television programs by letter and even fixed some order issues. The first two were tough due to being in a different list format but the rest were a breeze. --Mr. Magoo and McBarker (talk) 06:53, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Also, if anyone knows how I could get a section next to another rather than below, the information would be much appreciated. I originally copied the film format completely, but the colon function made the alphabetical list really hard to follow. The colon function would work really well with say BA and BE next to each other. --Mr. Magoo and McBarker (talk) 09:04, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• The list has been split to separate pages, but still exists, so the history should be retained; redirect to List of television programs#Listings by name. Peter James (talk) 17:43, 1 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect I suppose because of what is said above, or else I would've simply suggested deleting altogether as this is too wide of a subject for a solid article. SwisterTwister talk 06:09, 3 February 2016 (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.