Deletion of 2012 in American television

Comment: To say this violates  is to say that there is nothing verifiably scheduled in American television for the year 2012.  Which is so incorrect as to be absurd to assert.  First, '''the American TV season lasts from fall of one year to spring of the next.'''  So everything that has not yet been canceled that has been picked up for a full season qualifies as verifiably scheduled for 2012.  Yes, a show ''could'' get canceled in the meantime, but that would simply be a change in what is verifiably scheduled to occur, that does not mean that nothing is currently verifiably scheduled to occur.  Even apart from the extension of the current TV season into next year, there are also many verifiable examples of television series scheduled to return in 2012, or that have been renewed for 2012, had anyone !voting "delete" actually bothered to research it: http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/03/29/amc-greenlights-season-five-of-mad-men-for-2012/ Mad Men, http://hbowatch.com/game-of-thrones-season-2-comes-spring-2012/ Game of Thrones, http://collider.com/the-simpsons-renewed-24th-25th-season/119495/ The Simpsons, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/23/american-dad-renewed-by-fox_n_827186.html American Dad, http://www.seat42f.com/how-i-met-your-mother-renewed-through-2012-2013-season.html How I Met Your Mother...  We do not delete what is verifiable just because it isn't verified within the article at present, nor do we delete entire articles just because portions might be flawed.  I see this kind of crap in AFD after AFD.  Sometimes it's from a good faith misunderstanding of guidelines, as I'm going to attribute to Farine here, but often it strikes me as laziness, a mere  in service of .  Too many deletion noms and !voters are not following , they are not following , and they are not following .  And it all creates wasted effort in these AFDs, time that could be better spent improving articles that are improvable, ''such as this one
Stance: keep
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