Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Late Night with

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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, as there is no requirement to replicate information found in other articles. (aeropagitica) 09:52, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Late Night with

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Delete as nom. This article looks to be just a cheap knock off of content found at Late Night with David Letterman and Late Night with Conan O'Brien with no originality. The article overall is a cheap attempt to emulate The Tonight Show and its history of varying versions/hosts. Ultimately, the article is—and forgive for using the word—crufty. Ace Class Shadow; My talk. 20:52, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

  • Delete, the author says he was "creating 1 article for both Late Night's" but it looks like he messed up pretty bad. Probably isn't such a great idea anyway. Recury 21:28, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete - the shows are pretty much separate entities and already have their separate articles including a history section which covers the transition. At best, this could be a dab page pointing to the letterman and o'brien shows. -- Whpq 21:51, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep to early to delete, clean up. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 23:20, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete, this is a disambiguation page gone wild. The two shows share sets and some staff and part of a name but are otherwise not considered in any way the "same" show. --Dhartung | Talk 10:24, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete, as per above - there are only two "Late Night with" shows; Conan's has an extensive page which already covers the history of the post-Dave transformation, and Dave's covers the history of the ending of his show and moving to CBS (Late Show is more of a continuation of Dave's Late Night than Conan's Late Night). I would say this page should actually redirect to Late Night. Another way of looking at it is that the production company that produced the Dave's Late Night moved on to produce Late Show. Lorne Michaels was brought in to produce a totally new show. The only retention was the name, and the format of a talk show. TheHYPO 21:43, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment: I had redirected it some time ago, but suddenly the cretor popped up again after several weeks to "expand" it. While I can see the limited utility in a redirect, it would be best just to delete the thing, purging the page history among other benefits. Ace Class Shadow; My talk. 22:48, 11 December 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.