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 keep. Neil ム 10:09, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of Sony Ericsson products[edit]

List of Sony Ericsson products (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

Catalog of a company's products. Because Wikipedia is not a directory, this indiscriminate collection of unencyclopedic and temporal information should be removed. Mikeblas 19:20, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep and clean-up Sony Ericsson is an important brand, and these product lists help anyone looking for information to find it easily. I do, however, think that this article should be expanded with extended information and sortable lists.Rwhealey 22:15, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as per WP:DIRECTORY. This is more a category. Lists of products are usually not encyclopedic. They are more something you would find on the company's website. Tbo ¹⁵⁷talk 22:25, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete' per not directory, nor sales catalog Corpx 23:16, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Wikipedia is not an advertising service. wikipedia is not a directory. Lack of evidence of notability.
• Keep, it's under the correct syntax of "List of". It's a Wikipedia article list, For persons that want to lookup info on a device it's no different than the Disambig pages on here. In regards to promotion and wikipedia, perhaps all companies/bnusinesses should be removed from Wikipedia in total to stop their promotion full stop? Also most other companies have a similar list. If this is deleted they too probably should be deleted. Motorola, Apple, Microsoft, Intel 1, Intel 2, Nokia -- CaribDigita 15:23, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - subject covered by template and individual articles. Addhoc 15:37, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep I fail to see how this is a sales catalog -- I see no price quotes. The nominator seems to think that all lists on Wikipedia are directories. If there is a consensus here to delete this article, I fully expect the nominator to nominate List of Google products, List of IBM products, Amiga models and variants, List of Intel microprocessors, List of Microsoft Windows versions, and List of Games for Windows titles next. --Pixelface 04:46, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per Pixelface. This is not a sales catalog, directory, nor indiscriminate collection of information. It is a list of notable products manufactured by a notable company, and serves as an index to encyclopedic articles covering the various products of this company. The "temporal information" objection is addressed by ensuring that this list contains historical products as well as current ones. DHowell —Preceding unsigned comment added by DHowell (talk • contribs) 05:11, August 30, 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. Same reasoning as for AfD of Motorola products. See there for detailed argument. Highlights include: Compliant with WP:LIST; provides information beyond a category; provides structure and navigation; clear inclusion criteria. —DragonHawk (talk|hist) 14:36, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong keep I don't know why everyone is so set on deleting everything on wikipedia lately but these are great lists that are hard to find anywhere else. This list, like all the other lists just need to be cleaned up. Is it just me or are people here getting lazier, instead of cleaning up articles they're looking for reasons to delete them. —TigerK 69 02:01, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - All these should have article or redirects. -- Petri Krohn 23:13, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong keep This request for deletion is ridiculous. In the whole internet - please present me a list of comparable quality and completeness. Anyone? Then the list is not temporal, it is growing. Unencyclopedic? Writing about electronic devices seems to be a crime around here nowadways, while listing endless World War II details is 'very encyclopedic' ... rigelt 20:16, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. A list of company products that added some value might be keepable. For example, a list that could tie products to the history of the company, or with how its technology developed. A list like this one that just looks like random data makes me start thinking that Wikipedia is not a directory. I have seen product comparison tables with features shown in the table cells that seemed very helpful, in other words they were analyzing and summarizing the actual content of the products. A good example is List of home computers by video hardware. There is a general problem that there are not many featured lists in the technology area. Take a look at Wikipedia:Featured_lists for evidence. Don't take this as implying that all technology lists are bad; at some point this gap might be filled. EdJohnston 04:39, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong keep For a person to come across this list, they would have to search for it deliberately--as opposed to the advertisement coming to them. I find this list useful for finding past products that are no longer available on the company's website. Instead of destroying articles, Wikipedians should be improving them, and this article already has an extensive index, we shouldn't waste it all. Drant 05:54, 3 September 2007 (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.