Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/It Came from the Basement!

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The result was delete. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 21:21, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It Came from the Basement!

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Article about a television series not properly sourced as passing WP:TVSHOW. To be fair, this article was first created at a time when Wikipedia's inclusion criteria for TV shows conferred an automatic presumption of notability on any TV show that could be properly verified to exist -- but the criteria have since been tightened up to require third-party coverage about the show in sources independent of itself as independent verification of its significance. This, however, doesn't have that and never did, as it was just an interstitial feature that aired in commercial breaks between programs, and thus never received any non-trivial coverage in its own right. Even on a WP:BEFORE search of ProQuest, I just get one glancing namecheck of its existence in local human interest coverage of a collector geek who appeared on it once -- and otherwise I just get accidental text matches on house fires starting in basements, which obviously don't help at all. So this was a good faith creation by the inclusion standards of 2006, but it just doesn't have the coverage needed to pass the stricter inclusion standards of 2023. Bearcat (talk) 21:16, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Television and Canada. Bearcat (talk) 21:16, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete blatantly fails both WP:TVSHOW and WP:GNG. It appears to have existed at some point, but that's about all that can be said about it. The Wordsmith^{Talk to me} 01:43, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above: the article currently fails WP:GNG and WP:TVSHOW. InterstellarGamer12321 (talk | contribs) 07:33, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
'Delete per nom fails WP:GNG and WP:TVSHOW.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 19:45, 21 February 2023 (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.