Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Asian inventions

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 of the debate was delete Proto||type 14:45, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of Asian inventions

Cruft with one listing. I realize it can be expanded but I suggest we kill it off until someone with say 3-4 items for the list comes along.

• delete per nom. I tagged PROD on it before I realized that PROD is not working. Neier 14:12, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

How so is PROD not working? In any case, the article is refreshingly short :) Lambiam^Talk 02:19, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

I tagged it without previewing, and when the article came up, the PROD box had big red letters telling me to not use PROD because the toolserver was down or something. I think that may be why User:Gardar Rurak moved it from PROD to AFD. Neier 04:03, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

• Strong Keep, there is no real meaning in saying delete until it gets expanded. It can't be expanded if you delete it. There are enough inventions to fill more than one list, someone just has to put them up. Its fine as a stub. Ansell 14:20, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Do we have a List of European inventions? List of South American inventions? There are only so many continents after all, do we really want to make every invention ever get added to one of them? Here is a better list, limited in scope, yet, dare I say it, 400% more complete than the current article. Four Great Inventions of ancient China. I am sure there are better ones yet. -- GRuban 17:20, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete China invented gunpowder. Mesopotamia invented the wheel. How are these things related? It would be an indiscriminate collection of information if expanded. CanadianCaesar Et tu, Brute? 18:03, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as unrelated list per CanadianCaesar. bikeable (talk) 18:05, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete list with one item. I'd probably vote to delete ANY list with just one item, but in this case the one item may not even be accurate. From the gunpowder article: "Gunpowder is considered one of the Four Great Inventions of the Chinese, though in fact it is not known whether it was first invented in China." Enough said. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 19:08, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
• Strong delete. I would say delete even a list of Chinese inventions, but a list of everything invented in an entire continent is just ludicrous. I find the stub insulting. NTK 19:21, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

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.