Wiki143:Articles for deletion/List of programmes on ITV digital channels

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was Delete. Xoloz 23:05, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

List of programmes on ITV digital channels

Wikipedia is not a TV guide. Nuttah68 21:16, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Also adding List of Five (TV) television programmes. Nuttah68 07:29, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of UK-related deletions. -- the wub "?!" 00:14, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
• delete per nom. As digital TV grows and eventually replaces VHF/UHF TV, the list will become impossible to maintain. Ohconfucius 04:20, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - was created as a compromise to keep such lists out of the ITV2, ITV3 and ITV4 articles (the latter even being the subject of an edit war). Agree with Ohconfucius, and I'm fairly sure it would contravene WP:NOT. The JPS^{talk to me} 15:37, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - for the same reason Ohconfucius gives. Categories work so much better for lists. --tgheretford (talk) 18:17, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep The point referred to (Wikipedia is not a TV Guide, WP:NOT 1.7.3) doesn't really apply here, IMO. I don't find anything there that implies you can't list programs broadcast on a certain network. However, if you add current schedules and time (as in FOX#2006-2007_Line-Ups) that would break the "not a TV Guide" rule (as well as NPOV, since it isn't time neutral). Additionally, there are several other lists like this one (List of programs broadcast by NBC, List of programs broadcast by CBS, List of Australian Broadcasting Corporation programs, List of programs broadcast by American Broadcasting Company, List of programs broadcast by MTV, List of television programmes broadcast by the BBC, List of Channel 4 television programmes, List of programs broadcast by Network Ten, List of programs broadcast by Seven Network, List of programs broadcast by Nine Network etcetera) and the related Category:TV schedules that would also face deletion, if these articles are. Väsk 19:32, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

• Comment: It isn't necesarilly the list of programmes I have a problem with, it is maintaining the list. It would be far more productive and easier to add the programmes concerned to a category rather than maintain a list of programmes that could get out of date pretty quickly. --tgheretford (talk) 17:06, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

• I don't really see the maintenance problem. The article doesn't state that it includes every programme that has ever been broadcast on the channels, so it wouldn't get out of date just because ITV add new shows. And the editing history of ITV4 definitively shows that there is interest enough in this topic to maintain and expand the lists. Väsk 18:58, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

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