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. Yamamoto Ichiro (山本一郎)(会話) 03:58, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Lists of companies[edit]

AfDs for this article:

Such a list has no encyclopedic value. This is why categories exist. Zubdub 05:36, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete this and the sublists by country - equally as unmaintainable, incomplete and indiscriminate as list of people by name. Not to mention the red links of speedily deleted articles which encourage people to create articles on non-notable companies. Sure we may have "List of companies listed on $MAJOR_STOCK_EXCHANGE", as these generally are notable and well defined in scope. But not this. MER-C 08:36, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, and we aren't the yellow pages either. MER-C 08:45, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. This appears to be an alpahabetical index to other Wikipedia articles, most of which are blue-linked. The categories in red (list of Malawian companies, for instance) show that, thus far, there are no articles written about corporations in that particular nation. I would rename the article, however, to "List of Corporations by Country or Industry". Mandsford 12:00, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletions. -- -- pb30<talk> 12:17, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Unencyclopedic and adds nothing to category. THF 14:17, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, Wikipedia is not the Yellow Pages. Arkyan  ^(talk) 15:40, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, as indiscriminate list of information and as a directory. Useight 16:17, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Is this list going to include all 200 million or so registered companies worldwide or just the thousands on Wikipedia? This would work much better as a category, or even better as a series of subcategories. --Charlene 16:42, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. As per WP:NOT#DIR. Transwikify to Yellow Wikis.--Edtropolis 17:12, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong keep since no one has bothered to nominate all the sublists, to which the arguments really seem directed, there's nothing to be gained by

deleting this article. Carlossuarez46 18:44, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please see List of Japanese companies. I nominated that list for deletion (it was the first one I came across). If the result was a deletion, all the other country companies lists would be next. List of Japanese companies is my test case. Zubdub 22:08, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The purpose of country-specific lists and this encompassing list are different. For non-global, yet notable, corporations, the national lists do a good job at finding companies which may have been overlooked for articles so far. So, the current direction of the sub-list discussion (keep) and this discussion (delete) are not contradictive. However, this list does very little that a category cannot. Neier 06:21, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete A lot of the sublists are nothing more than directories as well. This is not the yellow pages. —Gaff ^ταλκ 21:22, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Note to closing admin consider whether any of the arguments made here apply to the nominated article or whether they apply to the unnominated sub-articles. Carlossuarez46 18:44, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - the fact that the sublists should (probably) also be nominated for deletion has little relevance to this debate. The "article", as a collection of these lists, serves little purpose that is not covered by categories. michaelCurtis ^talk+_{contributions} 21:34, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete this list and all of its children. —^Jack_Lumber^/tɔk/ 21:42, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: While I can see this list article being deleted, its deletion should have no impact on whether or not any individual lists related to it are deleted. Each of those should be considered separately, especially if they are country-specific lists. ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 22:48, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, because this discussion has been done outside the frameworks of Wikipedia:WikiProject Business and Economics (or any other possibly relevant project). Discussion should have first centered around how to salvage the article if at all possible. Also, linking this discussion with all other similar "lists of companies" without specifying them is a breach of the rules here at AfD... Those other articles are notable in their own right, and hence that is another reason for me to vote "Keep" here.--Endroit 00:49, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletions. -- Endroit 01:19, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:NOT#DIR and the following specific concerns:

The list doesn't do anything above what the category structure currently in use can do (no added value. More to the point, what value could be added here that couldn't just be included in each company's article?).

Increases maintenance work for company information, unnecessarily in my opinion (adds yet another place to go if a company merges/changes name)

Scope of list is too broad (how would you know when the list is comprehensive/complete/useful?)

Criteria for inclusion is indiscriminate, potentially leading to inclusion of a lot of companies in the list that are not notable enough for Wikipedia --Richc80 01:54, 16 June 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.