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. Even disregarding the blocked Cray04's view, there is only one, "weak", keep opinion; everybody else thinks the sources are not enough for notability. Sandstein 14:00, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Acting Crazy[edit]

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Completely unsourced (and tagged as such since 2008 without ever having a stitch of sourcing added in 15 years) article about a television game show. As always, WP:TVSHOW does not confer automatic inclusion freebies on television shows just because they existed, but rather a television show has to have WP:GNG-worthy sourcing about it to be notable enough for a Wikipedia article -- but after searching both ProQuest and newspapers.com, literally all I can find is very short blurbs and glancing namechecks of its existence (and accidental text matches where the phrase "acting crazy" was used in other senses unrelated to this show), with not even one hit of GNG-worthy coverage about this show found at all. Bearcat (talk) 04:24, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Television and Canada. Bearcat (talk) 04:24, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:22, 27 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Weak delete Note the content is very similar to its fandom page. IMDB links to no other sources, and the three sources added since nomination by A._B. do not have significant coverage. There is a moderate possibility of offline sources, however. Darcyisverycute (talk) 10:36, 27 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I've already checked two databases of pre-Google newspaper coverage, and found nothing much. Bearcat (talk) 17:51, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Already PROD'd so not eligible for Soft Deletion.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:30, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom

Cray04 (talk) 05:32, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Final relist.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 08:37, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete – The show fails in WP:GNG. It lasted a few years and only had a regional scope. In sources, the series only appears to be cited in some lists as a low-success program. Svartner (talk) 20:38, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Keep It's in IMDB and has some coverage on the net. Probably could be developed further with research (I added a cite for Wayne Cox hosting the show while doing a quick google for info). --Zippy (talk) 22:35, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
nb. added a few more cites. still weak keep, but wanted to make it as good as I could from a quick search online. --Zippy (talk) Zippy (talk) 23:01, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As of right now, the article is still referenced almost entirely to primary sources that are not support for notability at all, with the only thing that counts as a reliable or GNG-eligible source at all being the North Delta Reporter, which is an acceptable starter source but as a suburban community hyperlocal it's not in and of itself enough. None of the other three footnotes in the article are notability builders at all. Bearcat (talk) 16:37, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No disagreement re the quality of the added citations, which is why I am still a weak keep. But given the apparent popularity of the show during its multiyear run, I would not be surprised if there are newspaper or TV cites that would turn up with more digging. --Zippy (talk) 17:42, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Again, I already did WP:BEFORE searches in both ProQuest and Newspapers.com — which, between the two, cover off virtually every single GNG-worthy newspaper that exists in English Canada at all — and found nothing of value. Bearcat (talk) 00:21, 17 January 2024 (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.