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 delete. JForget 02:29, 13 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

List of ecovillages[edit]

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Delete since WP is not a directory. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 04:37, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I agree, although the list is well intentioned and good quality, no sources are provided to show that these are ecovillages. It would be better to have a link in ecovillage to an outside directory. Steve Dufour (talk) 05:29, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Deletionism sucks. But I copied the page to Sharewiki, so have your cake and eat. Guaka (talk) 12:04, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No one is against the page. It's just a question of the limitations of Wikipedia. It shouldn't be a storage place for lists of information, hence WP:NOTDIR.Steve Dufour (talk) 15:48, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

As nominator I endorse the view of User:Gene93k. When I came across the page I thought "Hmmm, this page is incomplete and if complete will be quite extensive. What about a list of notable ecovillages? That is a possibility but the page is essentially a list of external links and therefore is a deletion candidate because of WP:NOTDIR." -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 19:24, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as I tentatively suggested nearly three years ago. In the intervening time, little has been done to raise this article to anything like the scope of the lists provided in the External links section. To compensate for what looks like the pending deletion of this list, I have copied those external links to Ecovillage. — Epastore (talk) 01:54, 7 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:17, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for doing that. If a list is being maintained on another site why should we duplicate the work, especially in a case like this when more ecovillages are being founded all the time -- or should be if the movement is successful.Steve Dufour (talk) 03:25, 7 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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