Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Nightwish fanclubs

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 --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 08:27, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of Nightwish fanclubs

This is forked over from Nightwish, one of our featured articles, and makes it clear that this a list of official fanclubs of the band rather than unofficial fanclubs looking for free publicity. I'm not voting, but since this had been a speedy candidate I would like some other opinions on it. --Idont Havaname (Talk) 16:07, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

• Keep its not doing any harm. But it must be getting late - I was just going to vote delete this List of Jewish Nightclubs. Defunkier 17:21, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Wikipedia is not a mere collection of external links. -- Krash (Talk) 19:31, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, WP is not replacement for company website. Pavel Vozenilek 19:54, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Given its ties to a featured article there is no logical reason to delete this. There is no reason to weaken our coverage of Nightwish. -- JJay 19:55, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. This would even be a valid speedy (not that I'm suggesting people should do this). It's not an article at all, it's a collection of links. Wikipedia is not a website directory. Friday (talk) 20:14, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, Wikipedia is not a web directory. Sandstein 20:51, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Looking at the edit histories for both articles, this one appears to have been created to move the official fan clubs out of the main article, to de-clutter the page. Aren't improvements like that part of what makes a good article into a featured article? - Vary | Talk 23:08, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
• Comment: Getting rid of clutter is good, yes. I believe that's why this article is on Afd. Friday (talk) 23:44, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

If the article's deleted, won't the content wind up right back in the main article? -- Vary | Talk 02:47, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Not if people watch out for it and remove it when it happens. Undesired links can be removed from the main article without having to have a seperate article for them. Friday (talk) 07:16, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. Simply not encyclopedic. People should be able to find this info on the group's official website, which is appropriately linked to in the Nightwish article. dbtfz^talk 23:56, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
• Merge Belongs under ext link in the band article. Eivind 00:11, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
• keep please there is no reason to erase it Yuckfoo 00:18, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as per Friday. MCB 03:22, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Crash and Friday Cursive 23:24, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
• Merge with Nightwish (place under external links) if these really are official fanclub. Otherwise, delete. —Ruud 05:38, 6 March 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.