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. (non-admin closure) DavidLeighEllis (talk) 16:22, 5 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

List of TED speakers[edit]

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This is an article listing items of web media. Per repeated deletions, some editors feel that linking to such media is inappropriate (see history and talk:). As such, this article becomes worthless and so the topic is evidently unworkable within the WP content model.

There is no point in having this article without linking to the content it refers to. Andy Dingley (talk) 21:29, 28 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - I'm not sure if this list of speakers is notable per WP:LISTN requirements that independent sources exist that establish such a list as notable. However, the inability to preserve the list as an external link directory is not a valid reason for deletion. This is especially true in that the article is supposed to be a list of speakers, not a list of speeches.- Mr X 21:40, 28 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. Everymorning talk 22:12, 28 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:43, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:43, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep It seems easy enough to find examples of coverage which satisfy WP:LISTN, e.g. this. Andrew D. (talk) 22:49, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - I'm seeing a lot of various lists of TED speakers. It also seems like since TED talks in general receive a good amount of attention, this could be a useful navigational complement to Category:TED speakers. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 13:33, 1 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - agree with keep arguments above. useful to our readers. — Lentower (talk) 18:50, 1 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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