Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anime Unleashed

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 of the debate was keep --Ichiro 07:35, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Anime Unleashed

This page is nothing but an advertizement; it has nominal cultural or knowledge value. Further, several users have undertaken to update which anime series are currently running on Anime Unleashed and which have been cancelled. This makes the article more in the nature of a "program guide" than an encyclopedia article. I can see no way this article could edited or improved to make it encyclopedic GestaltG 05:07, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The list of anime is probably excessive, but the subject is notable. Keep. --Apostrophe 12:59, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Notable in what way. I believe that the reader should be able to determine how or why the subject of the article is notable in the first paragraph. Of all of the television shows out there, that come and go, year after year, on over two hundred cable channels, how is this show notable? Perhaps if the article could be modified/edited? Also, I noted that it's still called a stub, but as you indicated, 3/4 of the article is nothing but a list of shows. What is the redeeming value in a list of shows on Anime Unleashed, from an encyclopedic view? GestaltG 13:08, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Notable because outside of Cartoon Network's Toonami and Adult Swim block Anime's usually arn't featured on western Television, therefore a show that broadcast not only one but sever anime series is indeed notable. Deathawk 19:01, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
keep even though I dislike G4 (TechTV forever!), Anime Unleashed is a good segment of their programming lineup. I too agree that it needs to be cleaned a little J\/\/estbrook Talk VSCA 21:23, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Should we mark it for cleanup then? It's not really a stub and it's not really an article. Take out the list of anime programs and it's a stub again. But see, now in this discussion, we have had to finally state a reason why this is a notable enough subject for an entry; and that reason really has little to do with Anime Unleashed (which one might view as the cold medicine rather than the cold; does one talk about colds by talking about a cold medicine?). Any way in which this stub might then be expanded into an article will likely involve subjects outside of Anime Unleashed, for example, an article on anime in western culture. See, this is what I have been saying? Maybe it should be merged instead with any articles on Adult Swim and Toonami? GestaltG 00:29, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Why don't we create a page called Animes which have been broadcast on Anime Unleashed or if that won't suffice how about a category, these suggetions would be easy to implement plus we wouldn't have to mark it for cleanup.(as process could be done fairly easily) Deathawk 19:26, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Such a page as you suggest would then be again, nothing but a list or program guide, and not an article. It then would be marked for deletion and we would be back here again. GestaltG 19:32, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. At most it deserves a mention about anime in Western culture, as said above. So far it's a TV guide and clearly not encyclopedic. Deathawk says that this is "Notable because outside of XX and YY Anime's usually arn't featured on western Television". Maybe you meant U.S. television, which is a much, much more restricted field. In Latin America anime has been very popular for more than a while. Argentina had a local channel with a popular anime block years before CN's Toonami and Locomotion (now Sony's Animax) came into the scene. I may be nostalgic about those early days of anime here, but I'd never even dream of creating an article about that in Wikipedia, though a well-researched article on the penetration of Japanese culture (anime, J-pop, etc.) in the West would be perfectly OK. --Pablo D. Flores (Talk) 14:34, 4 January 2006 (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.