Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of cast members of Billy Elliot the Musical (2nd nomination)

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The result was delete. RL0919 (talk) 09:03, 22 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

List of cast members of Billy Elliot the Musical

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Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. While many of the cast lists and replacement cast members on this page appear to have sources, a great many others do not, which makes their verifiability and notability suspect. Prior consensus has generally favored limiting cast lists for shows to the original and most important productions. The main article for Billy Elliot the Musical already has this, including a section for notable replacement cast members. It is unclear how it is beneficial to go beyond this. GentlemanGhost (séance) 07:21, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Theatre-related deletion discussions. GentlemanGhost (séance) 07:21, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. A listing of all cast replacements fails WP:LISTN. Nobody does it. I shudder to think what a list for The Mousetrap would look like. Clarityfiend (talk) 08:23, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The latter thought had crossed my mind. Not to mention The Bald Soprano in Paris or off-Broadway's The Fantasticks. --GentlemanGhost (séance) 08:57, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Arts-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 15:18, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 15:18, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Indiscriminate list of mostly non-notable people. The notable ones are mentioned in the main article about the musical. -- Ssilvers (talk) 16:15, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral [1] A lot of such list of cast members exist. But Ssilvers makes a good point, most are not notable, and those that are can be mentioned in the main article. Dream Focus 17:37, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. It is getting difficult to manage. And yes, a lot of non-notable people.w.tanoto-soegiri (talk) 10:03, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Wikipedia is not meant to be an indiscriminate list of everything.John Pack Lambert (talk) 15:07, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete At the height of this musicals popularity this article was used as a way of keeping all of this information out of the main article. I agree it should be deleted.Mark E (talk) 11:48, 18 December 2019 (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.