Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The "Licious" Franchise

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The result was delete. L Faraone 01:17, 5 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The "Licious" Franchise

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The article receives minor views, there is no actual "Licious" franchise acknowledged by the Style Network and is outdated. Information on page can be merged to proper series articles. – Recollected • 02:20, 20 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Someone's imagination run wild here; the shows don't attract enough viewers to be called a franchise and read as the same kind of cruft apparent with the Bad Girls Club with Oxygen. No sources to be found. Nate • (chatter) 02:29, 20 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:37, 21 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:37, 21 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep! This one definitely smells like a franchise to me. Poor sourcing is not a good reason to delete an article is it?TeeVeeed (talk) 03:26, 21 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sources are kind of needed to create an article, as in absolutely required. Google is giving me nothing but mirrors of this article on other sites (which aren't even on top, but three-four pages deep) and opportunities to invest in restaurant concepts ending in 'licious'. Note I have also adjusted your rationale to be readable. Nate • (chatter) 02:50, 22 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, L Faraone 00:52, 28 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Ultimately this is all original research. We can only call something a franchise if two conditions are met: that the people who own the shows calls it as such or if the series are very commonly referred to as such by a TON of reliable sources. Neither of these qualifications are met in this instance. Would I personally call it the 'Licious franchise or 'Licious series if I were to talk about it to others? Probably, but the thing is, I'm not a reliable source and something being somewhat used by a small portion of fans of the shows doesn't count towards notability. This makes the titling of any of the series out there original research on behalf of the article creator. We can't give a series of shows a title that nobody other than a very small handful of people (and the show channel is not one of them) is using. Wikipedia is not here to popularize a title or give something a franchise name. No matter how much sense it might make to someone to call these shows a certain name, there aren't any reliable sources to show that this is anything other than something that one fan is calling a series. In this instance we absolutely need reliable sources to show that this is something other than a title that the article creator came up with one day. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 11:41, 30 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Tokyogirl. The only reference given does not refer to a franchise. --BDD (talk) 23:50, 4 June 2013 (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.