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Comedy Central

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1. It's a TV channel, some of whose shows we happen to have articles on. What of it? It's like having an article on, say, Fourth Estate because they publish Ben Goldacre. Bicycle^wheel 20:02, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
2. ^--Miekal 20:30, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
3. Nothing this short and irrelevant should survive. Ithaca8 (talk) 20:56, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
4. Sure there are articles on other networks and such, but this one is barely more than a fork page. Either it needs to be expanded into something that actually describes the relevancy of CC for RW's mission, or it might as well go. ScepticWombat (talk) 22:47, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
5. Comparing the size of the navigation template with the actual content...--ZooGuard (talk) 08:55, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
6. Could pretty much be replaced by a category. Worm (talk) 09:01, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
7. It doesn't need its own category. It certainly doesn't need its own page if that page is nothing but one huge template and four sodding links. Spud (talk) 15:22, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
8. Kill it. --Castaigne (talk) 00:00, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

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1. Relevant to mission. CC often attacks pseudoscience, fundamentalism, etc. Their shows are the media that make up part 4 of RW's mission. ʇυzzγɔɒтqoтɒтo (talk/stalk) 21:08, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

   We have articles on the individual shows which do what you say. is there a need for an article on the TV station that runs the shows? Compare for example, Fox News - it's obviously on-mission but its carrier isn't. Bicycle^wheel 21:26, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

   "Often" is a bit of a stretch, tater. ikanreed ^{You probably didn't deserve that} 21:27, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

   @BW: It's useful as a hub linking to the CC shows. A Fox News carrier article would be relevant if said carrier also hosted other crazy stuff.

   @ik: "Often" means "relatively more than most pop culture". A low bar, but CC passes it. αδελφός ΓυζζγςατΡοτατο (talk/stalk) 21:38, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

   Why do we need a Hub article for them? --Miekal 21:42, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

   Makes it easier to navigate to the shows; potentially, could have coverage of shows without their own main article. FU22YC47P07470 (talk/stalk) 21:45, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

   because The Daily Show, Colbert Report and South Park are so difficult to navigate too. --Miekal 21:47, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

   They aren't. Nobody said otherwise. The article provides a central list of CC's shows, letting people who didn't know about said shows know their relation to each other. And, again, shows w/o main article. αδελφός ΓυζζγςατΡοτατο (talk/stalk) 22:00, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

2. It used to redirect to South Park, but I thought that wasn't appropriately useful anymore now that we have three relevant articles. Zero ^{(talk - contributions)} 23:10, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Goat

• But but but, politically progressive satirical news shows with low tolerance for bullshit. ikanreed ^{You probably didn't deserve that} 20:10, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
• We have articles on the BBC and CBC, and that's not counting all the news networks we have articles about. Wëäŝëïöïď^{Methinks it is a Weasel} 20:54, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
• Unless the CC page is expanded into something like the BBC or CBC (i.e. containing actual information) I'd say it's pointless. If someone can be bothered write a "profile" à la the ones on the other news and media networks who have articles on RW, I'd happily strike my kill vote. I'm not against a CC article on principle, I just think that the current one isn't even a stub and must either grow or die. ScepticWombat (talk) 22:51, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
• If we have several articles on CC shows, turn it into a disambiguation page. - Smerdis of Tlön, ^{LOAD "*", 8, 1.} 00:13, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

  ^ This.--ZooGuard (talk) 08:57, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

How is that different from what it currently is? ωεαşεζøίɗ^{Methinks it is a Weasel} 00:05, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

it would have a small template instead of one dwarfing the content (if we can even call it content). Bicycle^wheel 00:22, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

It's 8 to 2. Can someone kill the article? Cømrade FυzzчCαтPøтαтø (talk/stalk) 04:01, 5 April 2015 (UTC)