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The result was Keep all. Maxim_(talk) 01:53, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Blessing Way (The X-Files)[edit]

An article about individual episode of a television series that does not establish the notability/significance of the episode, and in addition, does not even contain much information. Reads more like an entry on one of those sites that documents episodes of television shows. Calgary 03:48, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am also nominating the following articles (most of season 3) for deletion for the same reason:

Calgary 03:55, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete None of the articles have anything more than in-universe information. A subject that hasn't had significant coverage by secondary sources doesn't warrant an article. 17Drew 08:39, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Reject keep/delete all format of discussion "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'" has received a significant amount of secondary coverage ([1][2]) and some of the others may have as well. Nominating articles en masse like this makes it difficult to figure out what's actually notable.P4k 08:59, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Reject nomination - (effective keep all) bundling of all these episodes in one AFD prevents individual episodes from being debated on their merits. No opposition to re-nomination of questionable articles individually. /Blaxthos 13:51, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Merge and redirect all to List of The X-Files episodes. There does not appear to be sufficient information about the individual episodes to warrant separate articles so per WP:FICT a single "List of" article is the way to go. Otto4711 14:34, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong keep all. Unless someone changed the rules when I wasn't looking, individual articles for notable TV series are perfectly acceptable. If there's a lack of content, then that can be addressed in the articles themselves. Otherwise if you nominate these you may as well nominate the individual episode articles for Doctor Who, Star Trek, Jericho (TV series), Heroes (TV series), etc etc. And you can't just pick and choose which episode deserve articles. All or none, and if none then you need to push for a policy change unless, as I say, such a policy has come in when I wasn't paying attention. 23skidoo 17:06, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - It sort of did: WP:EPISODE.P4k 17:55, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - Notability is not inhereted. Articles for individual episodes are acceptable, if they meet individual notability (and reliable source) guidelines. While I rejected this AFD simply because nominating an entire season en masse deprives us of the ability to discern properly notable articles from the fluff. /Blaxthos 23:41, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Another keep all as well, because they're from a really notable show that has had books published about it (some official, of course) and so sources should be no problem and nor should notability, especially when other shows reference these episodes. Best, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 17:08, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Merge and redirect to "Season 4 of The X-Files" or something like that, because a lot of these are just too short to deserve their own articles. M1ss1ontomars2k4 19:36, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. To all. Notable. • Lawrence Cohen 20:09, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and I think its rather underhand to change policy without widespread input and notifying the community at large.KTo288 21:23, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Merge or redirect into the appropriate list of episode article per WP:EPISODE. It is very bad form to mass delete a bunch of episode articles without attempting to merge them into a list. --Farix (Talk) 21:39, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment To those who advocate a merge, there is already a List of The X-Files episodes article which lists all of the seasons, and if you look at the section for Season 3 (not season 4 as I had previously written, I apologize for the error), you'll find that not only is most of the information in these articles included in this list, but in most cases the text is identical. As it stands, the mass of encyclopedic information is already listed here, adding even more uselessness to the individual articles, which on their own are not notable. Calgary 02:46, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why aren't they notable? Significant secondary coverage exists for at least some of them.P4k 04:39, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep all for now. Please, nominate each separately so we can judge each article on its merits. Some are notable in their own sense, some were junk and are not notable. Disclosure: I am a fan of this series. Bearian 14:36, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as per Lawrence Cohen. Scarian ^Talk 03:08, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I agree that the subject has merit and each episode narrative should be listed. It is within Wiki guidelines and this and all episode descriptions should be retained.Baronvon --Baronvon 19:49, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep all as per Lawrence Cohen Kuralyov 21:39, 19 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep All on Inclusionist principle JDG 07:30, 20 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Reject Nomination (Keep All) per Blaxthos. Captain Infinity 09:50, 20 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Merge the episodes might be able to have inherited notability, but right now quite a few articles are rather lacking in content. Will ^(talk) 19:04, 21 September 2007 (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.