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The result was Keep Jordin Sparks and Robyn Troup, redirect the rest. Jaranda wat's sup 02:16, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

American Idol contestants

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Non-notable reality TV contestants. Either delete, or redirect all to American Idol (season 6) --GW_SimulationsUser Page | Talk 02:17, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Found 38,000 g-hits. Just looking through the first couple pages I found two independent sources, which makes me think that a diligent search will demonstrate notability for her. --Kevin Murray 03:59, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
38,000 hits warrants an article almost right off the bat. Whatever happens, Jordin Sparks should be kept. IMO the others can have articles but not stubs (they need to be full articles well beyond the capacity of the season page). CrazyC83 12:42, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Not quite. American Idol does get far, far more viewers every week than any other similar show, so it does have significantly greater notability right off the bat. However, there is no point in creating nothing but stubs. If at least a Start-class article can be made out of them, then I think they should stand. CrazyC83 04:30, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
no opinion about others. Elle Bee 12:56, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Correct on Robyn Troup. Keep her, as it is a fair-sized article already. Even if she wasn't on AI, she should have an article. CrazyC83 15:27, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think you can fairly compare American Idol with X Factor. There are 1,490,000 google hits for X Factor, including all the non-relevant hits for the comic book series, etc. For American Idol, you get 17,500,000 hits. the vast majority of which refer to the TV series. Zagalejo 22:28, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Population of the USA: 301,184,000, Population of the UK, 60,609,153. Obvious difference. If you do some simple mathematics, you will find out that in terms of the proportion or results to population, the number of American Idol links is about 0.5% of the population of the USA. The number of X Factor links is 4% of the population of the UK. American Idol contestants are not really of concern to many people in the UK, but they are possibly in the US. Equally, X Factor contestants are not really of concern in the USA, but they are in the UK. It is not fair to say that "If it is American, it is more notable than if it is British", and therefore, a uniform system for all articles, regardless of nationality, must be devised. That is why I am voting to delete these articles. Also, your searches are using the US version of Google, so obviously they are going to be misrepresentative and biased. Let's look at the UK results: American Idol, 805,000 results, The X Factor, 2,160,000 results. This proves that The X Factor is more notable in the US than American Idol is in the UK. --GW_SimulationsUser Page | Talk 23:12, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Well, actually, if you put the search terms in quotes, American Idol comes out on top, 441,000 to 368,000. Honestly, though, I don't see the problem with having X-Factor articles, too. Wikipedia is not paper, and if there were as many UK users around here as American users, I bet the X-Factor AFDs would have been different. Zagalejo 16:10, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
There are currently over 80 individual articles on American Idol contestants, per Category:American Idol participants. Get ready for a lot of redirecting! Wasted Time R 23:42, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I have nothing against the ones who have become notable. It's the ones who are "famous" just for appearing on the programme that I am trying to get deleted. --GW_SimulationsUser Page | Talk 00:30, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Well, per American_Idol#Top-selling_American_Idol_alumni only about 15 at the very most have made it in the music biz; add another 5 at most who've become prominent somewhere else. So get ready to redirect 60 of the above 80. Better start now! Wasted Time R 00:38, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The articles nominated here are semi-finalists on American Idol. However most of the other articles are about finalists. This means that they meet the notability criteria at WP:BAND because they have "won or placed in a major music competition." Tennis DyNamiTe (sign here) 21:39, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
That will require further analysis. Many of the semi-finalists with articles have put out albums or had high enough prominence that they are notable enough for articles. CrazyC83 22:34, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
There are 12 finalists in each year of American Idol, most of whom go on to obscurity, post-Idol vanity CD releases notwithstanding. "Placing" at a competition usually means top 3. There are still a lot of existing articles you are going to need to redirect. Wasted Time R 22:36, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I moved the above post from Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/American Idol contestants, and have redirected that to here to avoid further confusion. --GW_SimulationsUser Page | Talk 21:57, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Not necessarily, depending on how the search is set. At a minimum, these should be redirected. CrazyC83 16:33, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, let's not make Wikipedia less user-friendly. Besides, redirects are cheap. Zagalejo 16:51, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
So are articles. Isaac 02:26, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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