Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1928 in American television

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The result was delete. ✗plicit 23:53, 5 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

1928 in American television

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Unsourced since 2009. Too few things happened in these years, very early in TV's life, for a list to exist per WP:SALAT. Hell, the 1927, 1926, and 1929 lists only have one item each! Prods contested on all four by Matt91486 (talk · contribs) who argued WP:ITSNOTABLE. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 22:17, 29 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Television and Lists. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 22:17, 29 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all per nom, and also the following page, which was also deprodded and will be added to this nomination. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 22:21, 29 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 22:23, 29 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all I'm confused by 1927 in American television especially. The founding of CBS's predecessor as a radio company is not really about television. Perhaps there can be a Timeline of early American television or similar if someone wants to compile these. Reywas92^Talk 23:03, 29 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
And why are there no other lists for 1931-1971? Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 23:14, 29 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The lists are valid. If you want to merge a decade together, then you can have a merge discussion for that. They are valid information and navigational list. Dream Focus 14:18, 30 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
A list with only one item on it is "valid"? Also WP:ITSUSEFUL is not a "valid" argument. Try again. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 14:50, 30 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The only one with only one item on it is is 1926 in American television. And I said, short list can be merged to a large one if necessary. Did you only notice the things listed in events and not the births section? Dream Focus 15:13, 30 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Even adding the births, that's still barely a "list". Just about everything involving television prior to 1940ish could probably fit on one list because the medium was still in development. But given that no other lists exist between 1930 and 1972, I'm not convinced that any of these lists meet WP:NLIST. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 15:21, 30 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete these lists are far too short to be useful. They also are implying an idea that there was a braodcast media collection when no such thing existed.John Pack Lambert (talk) 15:10, 31 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Lacks sources to meet WP:NLIST and navigation purposes are best served by the category instead. MrsSnoozyTurtle 09:03, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
There are a lot of valid concerns voiced here, but I'm confused why deleting everything in bulk is even an option being considered? Why not merge all salvageable pieces into something like 1920s in American television instead? Or indeed, into a timeline of early American television as Reywas suggested above, if 1920s still don't have enough information for a separate page?—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); June 3, 2022; 19:49 (UTC)

Even if you combined all these lists into one, there'd still be a very small number of "events" that actually qualify as pertaining to the history of television. Furthermore, the timeline jumps all the way ahead to the mid 70s, so unless someone fills in those gaps it'd look imbalanced. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 00:49, 4 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- I hear what you're saying, but "imbalanced" and "incomplete" are simply not valid reasons for actual deletion. By that measure most of Wikipedia's contents should go to trash!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); June 4, 2022; 04:32 (UTC)

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