Wikipedia talk:Notability (television)


I've just created a section to start fleshing out "future series/pilots" info in the vein of WP:NFF. Info from WP:TVSHOW on pilots was put there, as well as copying a lot of the wording from WP:NFF. I do feel something in regards to animated television should be included as well, but I don't think that we can look to NFF's animated section for guidance. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 15:39, 1 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I believe that we should add a section surrounding the fact that an article with no actual production section (development, filming, etc.), but containing one or two reviews is not actually notable. Some Dude From North Carolina (talk) 01:08, 2 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I've also just created a section geared to television episodes specifically to hopefully discuss. Since a lot of what I've created I feel could apply to TV films and specials too, perhaps those three get grouped together in a section? - Favre1fan93 (talk) 15:40, 2 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The draft currently has a section which starts: An episode of television is not inherently notable simply because it has aired or because it receives critical reviews. Well, why not? Certainly it passes WP:GNG if (in theory) it has plenty of reviews but no production information. So it would be notable, and the only basis I can see for opposing a standalone article (without contradicting more general policies) is if it is better merged/incorporated into another article. But in "List of episodes" or season or main series pages, there isn't enough room to reasonably contain summaries of several reviews for each episode (or longer plots, which we might deem worthy of more detailed summary than at "List of episodes" tables due to its coverage in reviews).

I'd like to hear opinions of people who support this section of the draft to understand that perspective better. And I'd also like to hear opinions on: would a Production section of one or two paragraphs based on director's commentary be acceptable to pass this "required Production sources" bar? — Bilorv (talk) 21:08, 6 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Currently at AFD is Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Crunchy Frog. This relates to a well known sketch of Monty Python. Currently there is no Notability rules on sketches and goes to gng. Is it possible that this could be looked at? Davidstewartharvey (talk) 12:05, 14 February 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]