Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Online alternate histories

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The result was delete. If someone really really wants the list of links, let me know and I'll put a copy on their user space. Proto::type 13:05, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Online alternate histories

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Basically a list of external links, which is something that Wikipedia is not. Nothing that couldn't otherwise be covered at Alternate history or something similar. Recury 19:10, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

• Comment This page does seem to be a spin-off from Alternate history actually, so it might be intended as an attempt to reduce the size of that article. I agree it wasn't well-done though, and as it stands, the page is lacking in good content. Might be fixable, might not. Not quite willing to vote delete, but I wouldn't oppose a merge back either. Mister.Manticore 20:27, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
• Comment A list of links this long would take major maintenance to make sure they are all live - plus would anyone want to scan through this list? Would they use a search engine to achieve the same goal? I agree with the nominator that this is what WP is NOT, but I'm not up on the context of all of them. Is it something which grew because people kept adding their own links? If so, it definitely should go because it will grow into a monster. Reserving judgment. Bubba hotep 23:09, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
• Comment Would the interested be opposed to the idea of trimming (per comment of Bubba Hotep) and making more artickly (per Mister.Manticore)? Perhaps listing only those that actually score hits through Alexa.com? The remainder of the list could be moved to the Althistory Wikia, which would be a more suited venue for such a list. Bo-Lingua 01:10, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Wikipedia is not a directory for external links, and the rest of the article seems to be OR. --The Way 07:56, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

The ones I left were AltHistories/groups that actually scored on Alexa.com. If you'd like me to link to each group's Alexa traffic page, I can. Bo-Lingua 22:21, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete This is little more than a copy of the list of links on the alternate history article. I suspect it was created by the alternatehistory.com mod and his underlings as a way to acquire more member ship. can it I say.
• Merge back, don't delete. This looks like an honest attempt to shorten the article, and it just happened to bite off too small of a chunk. --M@rēino 21:30, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Merge I actually went in and removed a lot of the links yesterday of the smaller groups, leaving what I could see were the larger groups as opposed to single author's pages. I think I transferred about 20 links to the AltHistory Wikia. If the links are the problem, I can migrate those with the rest at AltHistory Wikia and we can crosslink to that link page, thus decreasing the "cruft." The rest of the article _is_ useful, though and SHOULD be, somewhere. Bo-Lingua 22:17, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep in order to keep the Alternate history clean. See Published alternate histories for what a useful article could accumulate over time. Possibly merge the "online ..." and "published ..." into one. Do not merge back into the main article which, IMHO, needs much more pruning. Pavel Vozenilek 03:36, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete This is original research. ~ trialsanderrors 00:11, 20 November 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.