Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Chopped Canada episodes

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The result was speedy keep. Withdrawn by nominator with no other support for deletion. RL0919 (talk) 14:04, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

List of Chopped Canada episodes

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This has been sitting in the new pages queue for months and I’ve looked at it enough times that I need to bring it to AfD for consensus. I know we have a lot of list articles about episodes but most of these don’t appear in any way noteworthy. It’s really just a copy of a directory and I’m not sure why we’re hosting it. Mccapra (talk) 14:26, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Food and drink-related deletion discussions. Mccapra (talk) 14:26, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. Mccapra (talk) 14:26, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Mccapra (talk) 14:26, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Category:Lists of food television series episodes has a lot of list just like this one. More community discussions should be had whether to keep this sort of thing. Many people come to Wikipedia to a list of episodes for a television show. This article only list who competed and who won each episode, who the judges were, linking to any of them that have their own Wikipedia page, the date it was first shown, and the name of the episode. A summary showing more information about what happened during the episode and the ratings of it would be nice, but not required. Dream Focus 14:55, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep no rationale for deletion indicated. It should probably be referenced, but I'm assuming it can be. Jclemens (talk) 22:59, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Dream Focus. Heartmusic678 (talk) 11:15, 10 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. I'm not entirely convinced of the encyclopedic value of comprehensive episode lists for reality competition series in principle, but in the absence of a formal consensus against them there's no reason to treat this differently than the equivalent American List of Chopped episodes and its various by-decade size management chunkouts like List of Chopped episodes (season 41–present). The basis for notability isn't actually any different, and the American articles aren't really referenced much better either (all of the ones I looked at just had one or two references at most, if they had any at all). Could the article use some improvement, yes. Might I feel differently if the American ones were bundled with this, yes. But given that they both suffer from identical problems, there's no remotely credible reason to treat only the Canadian one as a problem while giving the American ones a pass. You'd be much better off attempting to establish a consensus against episode lists for competitive reality shows across the board, and even that would probably fail, than you are trying to single this one out as somehow uniquely less notable than another country's identical treatment of its local version of the same franchise. Bearcat (talk) 15:44, 10 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Usually in cases like this, the article with the least number of views is nominated for deletion first, then the others are nominated with a link to the previous AFD claiming that somehow established consensus. But this time the nominator for this article stated they choose it because it was sitting in the new pages list, that how they found it. So I'll assume good faith. Since list articles like this come up often enough over the years, it'd be great if we could just edit the rules for list pages to say it was fine, and avoid future problems. Dream Focus 15:56, 10 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Withdraw It’s clear that there is a consensus to keep articles of this sort so thanks for making that clear to me. Mccapra (talk) 09:25, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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