Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Islands of British Virgin Islands

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 keep. Shanel ^§ 01:29, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Islands of British Virgin Islands

listcruft without additional value. Perhaps it can be merged to the main British Virgin Islands article, but definitely doesn't deserve an article of its own Hirudo 21:34, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

• Weak keep. I see no harm in keeping this. I suppose it could be merged to the main article if someone takes the effort of giving the list a more concise (e.g. multi-column) format; as it stands it would look ugly there. In any case, the information should remain, whether here or elsewhere. Lambiam^Talk 22:18, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Speedy keep. Here is why I changed my vote. There are lots of similar lists: List of islands of Africa, List of Islands of Anguilla, Islands of Antigua and Barbuda, Islands of the Bahamas, Islands of Bermuda, Islands of British Virgin Islands, Islands of Comoros, Islands of Grenada, Islands of Martinique, Islands of Mayotte, Islands of the Netherlands Antilles, North and East Island group. Islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Islands of Saint Lucia, Islands of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Islands of the Turks and Caicos. I am strongly in favour of consistency in our policies, and either all must go, or all should remain. I really think the latter is far preferable. In some cases there is no completely obvious parent article to merge this to. Categories are not a solution here. Lambiam^Talk 22:40, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, useful list, not really a great merge candidate. Kappa 22:46, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep useful  Funky Monkey  (talk)  01:30, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Definitely better out of the main article. Lists should mostly be avoided in main articles imo. Calsicol 02:35, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
• One of the speediest keeps you're likely to see around here. These lists of islands are perfectly standard Wikipedia articles, and are very useful for providing redlinks to not-yet-created articles (which is why a category won't do). And can you really see the value of the main article on a country containing huge lists of islands, lakes, rivers, towns, mountains, etc etc etc in that country? The main article would become so clogged with lists as to be worthless. Grutness...wha? 04:32, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep Notable and provides an informative list on a topic of importance.--Cini 16:46, 23 April 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.