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This article was nominated for deletion on July 11 2006. The result of the discussion was keep.

Requested move 8 June 2020

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The result of the move request was: withdrawn by nominator (non-admin closure) U-Mos (talk) 22:16, 8 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

List of programs broadcast by HBO → List of original programs broadcast by HBO – Unnecessary and un-useful scope of all programs broadcast by HBO, currently admitting its own impossibility to collate by vague lead description as a "partial listing". Needs to be restricted to programming commissioned by HBO only, allowing the reader to understand the significance of the shows listed and be a exhaustive list within newly set parameters. List of original programs distributed by Netflix gives precedent. U-Mos (talk) 01:40, 8 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose as it would not be WP:CONSISTENT with similar lists (see subcategories of Category:American television series by network) that follow the present pattern and scope. That said, I feel like the "broadcast by" used on all these lists is extraneous and that the list scopes are too large, so a move to a pattern like List of HBO original programming would be more WP:CONCISE and match Category:HBO original programming - but this would have to be done as a multi-move covering all such lists at once. -- Netoholic @ 10:09, 8 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per above and per WP:OVERPRECISION. Calidum 15:46, 8 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Advice from Netoholic gratefully taken - withdrawn pending alternative and larger scale request. U-Mos (talk) 22:16, 8 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Requested move 13 June 2020

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The result of the move request was: Consensus to move pages. (non-admin closure) — YoungForever^(talk) 22:36, 20 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

– On review of Category:Lists of television series by network, there is very little consistency in article naming or scope. Streaming services list original programming only and use a different title formation, i.e. List of original programs distributed by Netflix. Other networks are generally named as lists of all broadcast programs, but many are structured to only list original programming. As the most substantially misleading matter, it seems sensible to begin tackling this rather than attempt all fixes in one fell swoop. The three articles in this nomination all only list original programming, despite their titles. Future work could and probably should move the streaming service lists to similarly WP:CONCISE titles and develop other network list pages into a WP:CONSISTENT format of commissioned programming only. U-Mos (talk) 22:31, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support. While there is no guideline on these list pages, a similar guideline for the network categories, MOS:TVCATS, says TV series should avoid network categories when they were not originally produced for that network. I believe these lists should be handled the same way and their scope limited. Adding endless amounts of syndicated and 2nd-run programs is pretty much pointless - unless it isn't, which in turn means that adding them to the categories is also useful. The names proposed also match the naming style at Category:American television series by network. --Gonnym (talk) 05:48, 14 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I'm also going to support, as I think the proposal is the most WP:RECOGNIZABLE and WP:CONCISE iteration of this. If this passes, I would definitely advocate moving articles like List of original programs distributed by Amazon and List of original programs distributed by Netflix similarly to List of Amazon original programming and List of Netflix original programming, respectively. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 22:01, 15 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support to align with the categories. Suggest tagging with {{List scope}} post-move if work needs to be done to remove non-original material. -- Netoholic @ 03:51, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support on condition that acquired programming will be removed from these sites. Picsovina (talk) 14:13, 19 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.