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The result was keep. -- Cirt (talk) 01:06, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Foreign TV show, no indication of notability, no cited sources. delete UtherSRG (talk) 01:17, 3 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Foreign'? This is the internet… I translated it from the Swedish wikipedia. Davidleeroth (talk) 02:14, 3 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Err... But this EN.wikipedia.org That doesn't mean an article about stuff in other languages can't exist, but it does mean that anglophones somewhat less likely to be interested. David V Houston (talk) 02:20, 3 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment The page was just created. Sure, it doesn't have lots of external references to reliable sources (which might well be in Swedish), but he hasn't had a chance to put them in yet! A major (which this might or might not be) national TV program is likely to be notable, IMO. OTOH, checking out the Swedish page, there are NO references there and the page has been around since '03 (!) OK, further results. The phrase is obviously a common phrase in Swedish, as the google search shows. I tried a news search, adding the word television (which seems to be the same in Swedish), and I got a bunch of hits, but most still seemed to not be about this show. Not reading Swedish, it's a bit hard to tell, though. Davidleeroth, if you can find good independent secondary references (even if they're in Swedish), PLEASE note them - preferably in the article. David V Houston (talk) 02:23, 3 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have a source written in Swedish documenting that Pekka Heino was the host of Röda tråden Davidleeroth (talk) 04:41, 3 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sweden-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:47, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:47, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Weak keep - marginal notability, but I find it difficult to support nominations for deletions based on something being "foreign". Wikipedia:Systemic bias, Wikipedia:Geographic imbalance and Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias/Global perspective are recommended as reading. Tomas e (talk) 11:40, 7 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:05, 10 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep, seems notable enough, mentioned on the official site of the culture festival. I don't really understand why a TV show being "foreign" (non-American?) would be an argument for deletion. JIP | Talk 06:14, 10 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. No reason to reject articles in English on the grounds that they happen to be about Swedish TV shows that few non-Swedish speakers might have heard of. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 14:51, 10 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep: As above. Original language/country is irrelevant to notability. - BalthCat (talk) 07:51, 11 May 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.