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The result of the debate was delete. Mailer Diablo 08:39, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List of British companies[edit]

To be complete this list would need to have at least 1.6 million entries[1]. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information.

All British companies with articles in Wikipedia are already in listed in the category Companies of the United Kingdom and/or its subcategories.

The largest 350 companies in Britain are already listed in the articles FTSE 100 Index and FTSE 250 Index.

There seems to be no additional purpose for this article. THJames 16:04, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete: This list will never be complete. No private companies appear to be listed, and these are by far the majority. Stephen B Streater 18:33, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per above, this isn't really needed. --Scot^t 20:14, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per the excellent nomination, which seems to cover all possible objections. — Haeleth Talk 20:34, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete This article is not necessary. --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 20:42, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Resources such as Companies House Online or FAME make this list redundant. Even if it could be completed, of what value would such a page be to a researcher?  (aeropagitica)  (talk)  21:30, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Category "Companies of the United Kingdom" per aeropagitica's excellent argument. However, that being unlikely, as Categories seem to be the holy grail in Wiki at the moment, Keep this as a perfectly valid list. Jcuk 22:40, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete A category would make more sense (per above). Captainj 23:46, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep as useful list although I suspect I have lost this one. Capitalistroadster 00:27, 3 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • I give up: how IS a list with one-and-a-half million entries useful? --Calton | Talk 01:48, 5 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete The list doesn't offer any real information not already handled by the category. If someone consider it important, an additional category for the former companies would be a better choice. Deleteme42 12:35, 3 June 2006 (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.