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The result was no consensus. The two principal opposing points of view are :
- These lists are of poor quality and little substance and we should take a stand against paid editors creating junk
- When viewed on their own merits, and ignoring the paid editing element which may be worth blocks and bans in itself, the articles have sufficient potential to be improved if somebody bothers to do it (as principally advanced by Beyond My Ken).
Essentially, I don't see much middle ground between these two camps; indeed, the conversation has got heated on occasion through the debate.
Northamerica1000 has suggested a further activity is to selectively merge + redirect some or all of these articles, which can be done through normal editing. The suggestion to take the conversation to Wikipedia talk:Notability#Notability of Timeline articles is also worthwhile. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 15:04, 23 March 2017 (UTC)