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that this AfD coms scant days after the page was ded, and improved to, as it were, 'beat' the prod. It would appear, therefore that the page doesn't meet one of the "other" criteria on Wiki~: namely, it lacks a sufficently high-powered sponsor, and therefore will be shot unmourned by those who
365:"matter". This is a documented instance of the Guinness Records getting something arguably wrong-ish, and I suggest now, as I did on the prod, that the article should at leastr emain until the next edition of Guinness, to allow an independent documented argument. -- 52:
merge, and no consensus on where to merge it to in any case, but there is a pretty clear consensus that we shouldn't have this article. If anyone needs a temporary userfied copy to assist in putting something about this in an existing article, let me know.
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I've heard it from both sides. Anyway, as pointed out above, this blurb is mentioned elsewhere but is not notable on its own merits, and both of the "sources" are primary - they come from the broadcasters of each series, respectively.
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fan as the next man, but this whole "controversy" was nothing more than a tedious points-scoring exercise between science-fiction fans on message boards, and is desperately, desperately unnotable. Perhaps,
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article on this very controversy. That's probably sufficient for Knowledge, and the notability of this controversy is questionable at best. --
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I can support that; it makes sense to put this in a section on Guiness's reliability. Will update my opinion above to reflect that. --
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as separate article. Controversy already noted at Stargate SG-1; it can be further discussed in the article Josiah Rowe proposes. ---
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on the independence criterion. Having reread this page and seen the guardian ref, it's only one reference away from passing WP:N.
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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per Josiah Rowe and Sean Curtin. I would note that it's not just a message-board thing; in fact, given the
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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over the other. It's a minor point of debate between fans - and being an avid fan of both
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page, but that's at the very most. I can't see how it merits its own page here.
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.
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Lengths of science fiction film and television series
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Knowledge:Articles for deletion
deletion review
Seraphimblade
03:26, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
Stargate vs. Doctor Who Guinness controversy
Stargate vs. Doctor Who Guinness controversy
edit
talk
history
protect
delete
links
watch
logs
views
View log
Angmering
11:34, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Stargate SG-1
GJD
13:02, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Guinness World Records#Reliability_questions
GJD
13:37, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Arkyan

16:05, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
BBC News
The Guardian
re-structuring

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