Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1949-1950 United States network television schedule (weekday)
The "#DIR|Wikipedia is not a directory" policy specifically allows for "''historically significant programme lists and schedules''" and there is no doubt that the U.S. network television schedules each year receive significant coverage from multiple reliable sources, that they are historically significant, and that there exist currently published sources for this historical information. This is exactly the sort of thing that television historians document: See, e.g. ''http://www.amazon.com/Total-Television-Book-CD-ROM-McNeil/dp/0140267379/ Total Television'', ''http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Directory-Prime-Network-1946-Present/dp/0345497732/ The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present'', and ''http://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Daytime-Television-Everything-Bandstand/dp/0823083152 The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television''. These types of articles have also been nominated for deletion several times before and the result every time is not to delete: Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/1997-1998 United States network television schedule, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1985-86 United States network television schedule (Saturday morning),  Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1983-84 United States network television schedule (Saturday morning), Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2007-08 United States network television schedule, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1982-83 United States network television schedule, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The US network TV schedule articles. Perhaps it's time we revise policy to make it even clearer that this type of historical information is allowed. (I also think we ought to make citing #IINFO as a reason for deletion without citing one of its specific items a blockable offense |criterion for speedy keep, but that would probably never fly
— User:DHowell, 22:16, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NOT||WP:NOT||WP:CSK (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)