Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Political Documentaries

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. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 03:10, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of Political Documentaries

Originally placed on CSD by User:Musaabdulrashid, but "This is an attempt to create a useless list of information that is notably displayed elseware" does not fit into any of the CSD categories, and so taking to AfD. I actually support this deletion as it'd probably be better off as a category. ColourBurst 05:18, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete Yet another endless list. Categories are much more appropriate for this sort of thing, especially given its scope. — NMChico24 05:21, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as the person who nominated it for csd 15 minuets ago--Musaabdulrashid 05:37, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
• Strong delete, listcruft, and improper title case is the icing on the cake. --Kinu ^t/_c 05:52, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete I prefer categories for this sort of thing. Mr Stephen 11:07, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - lists are much more useful than categories in a lot of ways, and Political documentary is an encyclopaedic topic. WilyD 13:31, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Lists are inherantly bad. Any political documentary, even one made in one school day, could be listed in this article.--Musaabdulrashid 00:48, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

WP:LIST would disagree, but it's probly the case that any featured list nominated here with "nn listcruft" would get deleted. WilyD 11:37, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete as potentially infinite. Use the category instead. --Coredesat talk. ^_^ 22:04, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete If this had meaningful criteria for inclusion, it would have promise. It actually has some content about the documentaries, making it more valuable than the category. However, with no criteria for inclusion, it is potentially infinite and listcruft. GRBerry 15:08, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
  • That is, of course, not actually true. Entries still have to get past WP:V, so the potential is not infinite, nor is there any real potential for "listcruft". WP:LIST also covers reasons for having lists, which is more than just discussing the contents of the list. WilyD 15:41, 15 August 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.