Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Events that happened on a Saturday

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete per WP:SNOW -- Y not? 16:06, 1 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Events that happened on a Saturday

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This is an a-typical nomination and includes all of the other days of the week (Events that happened on a ...: Events that happened on a Sunday Events that happened on a Monday Events that happened on a Tuesday Events that happened on a Thursday Events that happened on a Friday Events that happened on a Saturday); this nomination is in part procedural because I believe it is inevitable at some point and we should have it now to either sanction more development, or cease it without losing more effort. While the arguments below are persuasive, I realize there are other arguments persuasive too, and I myself am only a hair away from neutral.

The list is an arbitrary recollection of the myriad of date-based event listings. We have those for years and months, and splitting them up by days of the week creates a 7x workload for verifying and cross-referencing these. Moreover there isn't a common connection between the events (other than the obvious date issues) (There's also the interesting cross-calendar issue of Jullian calendar and Gregorian calendars). More technically there aren't reliable sources that cover "day of the week" event listings as being reasons for lists. I'm aware there are published listings out there, but those would fail for NOTSTATS reasons absent an outside showing. Shadowjams (talk) 22:01, 27 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: Also include Events that happened on a Wednesday Rich Farmbrough, 15:10, 28 September 2010 (UTC).[reply]

delete all A weekday is a rather nonsignificant trait iof an event. At the same time I would suggest to introduce a category, kind of Events whose significance is that they happened on a particular weekday (I don't know a good name for such a category), such as Black Monday, Bloody Sunday, etc. Loggerjack (talk) 22:12, 27 September 2010 (UTC).[reply]

delete all nothing but a random coincidence and providing no encyclopedic value. Active Banana (^bananaphone 22:32, 27 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:13, 28 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Deleete: No significance and no encyclopedic value. Joe Chill (talk) 00:33, 28 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, agree with nom. Renata (talk) 01:54, 28 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Arbitrary connection and completely unmanageable. Edward321 (talk) 05:12, 28 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - These lists are nothing more than just linking things together that are only connected due to the day that they happened and are completely non-encyclopedic. DitzyNizzy (aka Jess)|(talk to me)|(What I've done) 10:18, 28 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete WTS. We have probably over a million events documented to day granularity... and when it's Wednesday in Hawii it's raining over here... Nice idea, but no. Rich Farmbrough, 13:54, 28 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as trivia. —Carrite, Sept. 28, 2010.
Cute but delete. -Selket ^Talk 20:33, 28 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all per WP:IINFO. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Otters want attention)} 21:12, 28 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all as just way too much unnecessary information. Too many non-notable events would creep in. There can not be anything other than synchronicity to connect the dots. Bearian (talk) 21:40, 28 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all, really not necessary, this will go on forever. Qajar (talk) 21:07, 29 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as above Adabow (talk · contribs) 05:57, 30 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, events are not related. Geschichte (talk) 06:45, 30 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete this is way to arbitrary and Wikipedia is not a directory. Hekerui (talk) 08:03, 30 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all. What weekday some event happened on is only of trivial importance, at best. JIP | Talk 08:24, 30 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - definite delete - however in some calendrical systems (see Javanese calendar for instance) - there are auspicious days in the 35 day cycle - so in some cultures there are specific days that could be considered to have sufficient notability (such as my user name Satu Suro) and there are adequate reliable sources for that - so for all the 'delete' comments - there is a counter argument that there are days in some systems that could use such - but to get to an acceptable threshold of credibility - would need very very careful documentation to even get a smidgeon of adequate WP:N or WP:V Satu Suro 08:28, 30 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all clearly trivia Nick-D (talk) 11:37, 30 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all Arbitrary collections of trivia dilute the value of an encyclopedia. Peacock (talk) 12:37, 30 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all If it must exist it should exist as categories, not articles. --NJR_ZA (talk) 13:08, 30 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all – Waaaay too indiscriminate. Moreover, I understand that WP is not paper, but WP also should not be crashing Internet browsers, as it did to mine twice while trying to open the articles. –MuZemike 17:07, 30 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete ridiculous categorisation. Buckshot06 (talk) 20:24, 30 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all Trivia. Invertzoo (talk) 20:55, 30 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom, trivia, please. Next we will have events that happened on a Saturday at 2 PM.--NortyNort (Holla) 11:36, 1 October 2010 (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.