Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/.ai

This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page, if it exists; or after the end of this archived section. The result of the debate was Keep. Scimitar 16:08, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] .ai

This dab page contains two entries, one incorrect, one nonencyclopedic. The incorrect entry states that ".ai" is top-level domain for Antigua. (It's actually ai.) The nonencylopedic entry refers to a filename extension for Adobe Illustrator files. (Wikipedia is not a general-purpose database.) ----Isaac R 01:39, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• We shouldn't have titles starting with a dot. Delete, redirect to AI. Radiant_>|< 01:50, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)
  • Have you looked at Template:CcTLD? We have quite a lot of them. And that's not including the articles on filename extensions. There appears to be a lot of duplication here (ai telling us that it is an ISO country code, and .ai telling us that it is a CCTLD, which of course use the ISO country codes.) Isaac Rabinovitch is almost right, though. The dot preceding the label is, in fact, not valid without a preceding label, and so isn't a part of the name of the CCTLD itself. However, strictly, since it is a top-level domain name, and not a shorthand, there should be a dot following the label. Uncle G 02:32, 2005 Jun 18 (UTC)
    • Okay, good point. Never mind then. I do hold this is not particularly informative, though. Radiant_>|< 12:53, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)
• I tent to agree about these article titles starting with dots. There seem to be dozens of them: Category:Country_code_top-level_domains. There is also a monster series template associated with them: {{CcTLD}}. Perhaps the whole category/member articles/template should be discussed together. (Somewhere other than VfD?) Personally, I have a hard time seeing how most of these TLDs have encyclopedic potential as individual articles. --Tabor 02:25, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, and agree with Tabor, esp. considering TLDs.-Splash 02:30, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)
• It doesn't make much sense to delete this one alone. If you want to move all these pages to different names, VfD isn't the right forum to do that; there's no reason to diss Antigua while leaving .nz, .au, .tv, .uk and so on. Keep for now, pending agreement on all the articles together. And don't forget .com, .org, .name, .info, etc. —Wahoofive (talk) 05:09, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Oh, and as for the Adobe Illustrator link, see .pdf, .rtf, .doc, .txt, .pst. It's a little late to try to prevent article titles starting with a period.—Wahoofive (talk) 05:13, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Keep, like .com, and .ai is where people would expect to find it. Kappa 06:54, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep -- important ccTLD - Longhair | Talk 11:33, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Delete: Adobe Illustrator is a major product, but confusion over the file extension is not a common thing, and it's nothing like .com, .sys, or .exe. The top level domain is, if folks will read the nomination, incorrect. Geogre 12:54, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • It's still where people would expect to find it, so a disambig would be necessary. Kappa 13:52, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - at least until the entire matter of where top level domains are going to be. If you want to make that change start with something like .com - don't pick on tiny islands. Guettarda 14:34, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep NSR 14:42, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per Wahoofive. And you can add to his list: .bmp .htm .png .arc to name a few more. DS1953 18:20, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep that's part of a long list of articles about TLDs.--Poli 02:42, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per Wahoofive. .ai (for Artificial Intelligence) has potential to be a money-spinner for Antigua although unlikely to be as big as .tv is for Tuvalu. --ScottDavis 11:53, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be placed on a related article talk page, if one exists; in an undeletion request, if it does not; or below this section.