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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was Delete.  (aeropagitica)   (talk)  13:56, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 480 seconds

Article about a high-school TV show. I'm not sure if it is notable enough, even with the students that took part, as I'm not sure of THEIR notability either. Prod removed without reason as well Wildthing61476 14:05, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

PROD removed with out reason? The horror! Let us delete this article post-haste, before this craze of removing PROD tags catches on! fuddlemark (befuddle me!) 14:09, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment I made that mention because by procedure the next step for an article with the prod removed is AfD. Wildthing61476 00:37, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Seriously, though: dude, a TV show created by High School students for the edification of a High School audience which ran for 5 years? Maybe this sort of thing is common in the USA (where they have 39 flavours of ice cream; maybe even more), but from my old fogey point of view it's pretty freakin' amazing, eh? If we feel the programme itself isn't worth an article in its own right, it should at least be merged into an article on the Senior High School. fuddlemark (befuddle me!) 14:16, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Strong, strooooong delete With no disrespect to fuddle, an excellent user from the great land of Australia, TV shows produced by high schools are a dime a dozen in America. My town not only gets the public access channel run by my old high school, but the public access channels run by the high schools of two neighboring towns; this is quite common in the US. "480 Seconds"+"El Camino Real" (the name of the high school) gets a grand total of seven unique Google hits, five of which are YouTube or MySpace. Since the article is strongly POV, and Google hits show that the program is completely non-notable, it's not even worth a merge, as there's no evidence that the program (as the article claims) "has become a significant part of El Camino Real Senior High School history." -- Kicking222 14:36, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Merge, a brief mention in the high school article does no harm. Powers T 15:21, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Strong Delete and Oppose Merge. It fails WP:V, so it doesn't seem like it should be added to another article. Good (or in the case of highschools, acceptable) articles should not have bad (or unverifiable) information lumped into them. Irongargoyle 16:51, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
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.