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. -- Cirt (talk) 02:28, 17 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comparison of smartphones

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Advertising. Spammy. Wikipedia is not Consumer Reports. Consumer product comparision ephemera is not the mission of an encyclopedia. Wtshymanski (talk) 13:55, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:07, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - as per nom (next time, give the rest of us a chance to bring a new reason to the table!) Bigger digger (talk) 23:30, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment by nominator. You could have added "original research". Whoops....--Wtshymanski (talk) 13:39, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I have found this article extremely useful for a research project I am doing. It has given me a snapshot of smart phone capabilities, which factor in my analysis. A similar article could be e.g the comparison of world war 2 tanks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_early_World_War_II_tanks). I recommend that the article stays. --( added 17:21, 5 September 2010 by 86.164.199.163 (talk) on the discussion page and moved here)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ♪ ♫ Wifione ♫ ♪ _―Œ^{♣Łeave Ξ мessage♣} 03:29, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Delete Well sourced with lots of information, but certainly has that Consumer Reports feel to it. Dondegroovily (talk) 04:17, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - I think it's a basic list, and a well sourced one at that. I worry some about synchronizing between all of the various smart phone lists we have. I'd highly suggest a merger of them... but aside from that, seems like a decent NPOV list. Shadowjams (talk) 10:45, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
strong keep. Useful comparison of notable information, I can see no reason to delete it. Why is this "advertising" or "spammy"? Just because it is about consumer products doesn't mean it is "unencyclopedic". --memset (talk) 18:24, 10 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep- Feel like it's in a list format, and it's well sourced. Granted it does need aditional verification, but we can always work on that later. However, if it makes people happy, I guess we could always call the article something like, "Smartphone Technical Specifications" or something like that. The idea is we can all edit any article, for the most part, so lets edit this one and get it up to Wikipedia standards! Flightx52 (talk) 23:53, 10 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment by nominator: "up to Wikipedia standards" - is that "de facto" standards or our ideals? --Wtshymanski (talk) 21:31, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Useful, NPOV, keep it current. -- Sitearm | Talk 19:49, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - seems an encyclopedic comparison. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 19:07, 16 September 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.