Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of comedy-drama television series

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) DavidLeighEllis (talk) 00:41, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

List of comedy-drama television series

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Comedy-drama is a very popular genre. There are simply too many to list them all. A category is enough. JDDJS (talk) 00:08, 9 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:21, 9 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:21, 9 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep – Qualifies for an article per WP:NOTDUP relative to Category:Comedy-drama television series. At 8,775 bytes, the article is not too long, as per WP:SIZERULE, and if it were to become too long, then portions of it could be WP:SPLIT into WP:SPINOUT articles.

It's also a functional article for navigation as per WP:LISTPURP. Furthermore, it appropriately complements the category. For example, the list article page received 1,684 page views in September 2015, while the Category page only received 194 page views. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:24, 9 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per North America, per WP:LISTPURP and WP:NOTDUP. A list that grows too big can be split into sublists, and it would honestly be inane to only keep lists to which few articles belong and delete the lists of large groupings that most articles would fall into. postdlf (talk) 00:51, 9 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Notable topic with scope for expansion. Dimadick (talk) 18:04, 9 October 2015 (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.