Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of charities

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. Mailer Diablo 02:06, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of charities

A list with greater scope than can be covered in a wikipedia article. The number of charities in the world is likely to be at least many thousands given that it is a legal status rather than anything to do with doing good. It is not possible to document the entire list and in any case this list is redundant with Category:Charities. The prospect of deletion has been raised on the talk page. MLA 15:20, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

• Delete A complete list of charities for all of the countries listed? The Charity Commission in the UK listed [167,466 charities on its register by December 2005. How many hundreds and thousands of others would be needed from each country to make this list approach comprehensiveness? The list would be useless to a researcher.  (aeropagitica)  15:57, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete This page is always going to be prone to POV, systemic bias, linkspam, and fraud. It also gives the appearance that Wikipedia endorses or recommends the listed charities, or that a listing here implies legitimacy. An earlier deleted version was created as a way to promote disaster relief (even Jimbo weighed in on the edit war). This is a bad compromise based on very good intentions, and it can be covered better as a category. Jokestress 16:48, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. I used to like lists, but I'm having it beaten out of me by the proliferation of undiscriminating listcrufters. Slowmover 20:40, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete permanently extremely incomplete listcruft. Smaller charities deserve coverage too, this systemically leans towards the big boys. Deizio 01:33, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Much better as a Category. --Midnighttonight 01:43, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Horrendously unmaintainable as a list, great as a category. Grandmasterka 06:58, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above. --Khoikhoi 04:12, 25 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.