Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of years in French television

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 keep. postdlf (talk) 00:30, 17 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

List of years in French television

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List of years in French television

Extended list of individual articles.

Quick recap: Previous relevant ANI thread is here. In a nutshell one user mass created almost a thousand mostly empty copy/paste articles, with the only content usually an indiscriminate list of trivia about that year, lots of red links, a smattering of blue links, and otherwise copy/paste headers for empty sections with Template:Empty section.

Consensus at ANI seemed to be that these should not be taken care of in an orbital nuclear fashion, and should be taken to AfD instead. So this is round two, and a follow up to the previous AfD at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of years in Israeli television, which resulted in a consensus of delete.

Note that per the ANI thread some of the YEAR in French television articles have already been deleted per a discussion on IRC. Also note that there are definitely articles out there which follow a similar format, such as 2010 in American television, but for which there actually has been substantial content added. These mostly or entirely appear to be creations by other users while creations by this user in particular seem to all or nearly all be mostly empty articles created en masse and in many cases, have languished in main space for years without any substantive content. TimothyJosephWood 14:37, 27 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:00, 27 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of France-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:00, 27 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:00, 27 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 15:10, 3 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Keep - Unlike what I saw of the Israeli television pages, these are not mostly empty. These are not gems, but the basic format is workable, as is some of the content. I don't really understand including a list of television shows that aired in each year in which they aired, as though these pages operate together as a cohesive timeline rather than discrete lists, but things like years notable shows began and ended seem possibly useful, and maybe even television "events" as determined by coverage in reliable sources. As I think there could be a case for LISTN/SALAT, the major problems seem to be that they need more work and they were created (in whole or large part) by the same user. These don't seem like issues that require deletion. Most of the issues present, concerning, say, section headings, the organization of the pages, etc. are part and parcel of the "years"-based articles in general, and the general appropriateness of the format is, I think, better dealt with in a different forum. Another idea might be to combine the various YYYY in COUNTRY television into a single YYYY in television list. If the United States (or other countries with a great deal of television cultural output) becomes too dominant, that one could be spun out with the rest remaining. Would be tedious to do the combining, indeed, but thoughts? — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 23:21, 4 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Kurykh (talk) 01:28, 11 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Article serves a useful purpose.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Knox490 (talk • contribs) 05:42, 11 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per arguments expressed by Rhododendrites and also for the fact that the very existence of such year-by-year individual entries, Wikipedians knowledgeable in TV history have an incentive to expand these entries. France is one of the world's leading nations in TV presentation and the key provider of programming for the entire French-speaking world. In their present state, these articles are woefully underpopulated but, given the opportunity to grow, have the potential to develop into major multilevel entries, expressing entire social and political histories of their time. —Roman Spinner (talk)(contribs) 03:23, 12 April 2017 (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.