Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of LSTs

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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. howcheng {chat} 00:10, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of LSTs

I question the importance and usefulness of a 38kb list of ships. The US ones at least have pretty obvious names anyway and I think that about 14 of this first section of 1070 links are blue at present. If anyone is interested in these vessels, I find it unlikely that they will search for this list specifically, as they will probably know the number of the vessel they are looking for. As such I am posting this on AfD, whilst myself Abstaining (I am not an expert on list policies etc. and I'd rather let more experienced persons than myself decide.) Dan 20:14, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

  • Comment this may be a list for a project, to "fill in" missing articles. If so, it should be kept or at least userfied. I have left a query on the page creators talk page concerning the purpose of this list. KillerChihuahua?!? 21:59, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. It may be 'obvious' with the USN LSTs, but it certainly is not so with Royal Navy LSTs, and that doesn't even consider LSTs that other nations had which could perfectly well be put on the list. There might be a case for making it a disambig page with links to national LST lists, but certainly not for deleting it completely. The list is structured list so far as I can see so it does not come under WP:NOT in that respect, or in any other respect. AFD is used for those articles that come under the terms of WP:NOT or for those articles that are thought to come under those terms. I cannot see which term of WP:NOT applies to this list. David Newton 22:33, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. I have removed the redlinks from the US list, because that info really doesn't tell us anything useful (unlike on the UK list), but this page is a handy jumping off point for the articles that do exist. GeorgeStepanek\talk 23:05, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment - What is a "Landing Ship Tank" anyway?! Cyde Weys votetalk 05:14, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
    • A ship used to deliver tanks (and other things) to a shore somewhere. Think of the famous Normandy Beach footage of soldiers poring out of those ships onto the beach. The military loves to be heirarchial and precise, so this is really a landing ship, tank which puts the most important noun first, followed by a qualifier. In a rational world, there would also be things like landing ship, artillery and landing ship, troop Turnstep 00:36, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
It's Landing Ship, Infantry (LSI) GraemeLeggett 13:05, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
Image:LST-357 loading.jpg may help clarify what an LST is - it's a bit larger than "landing ship" might be interpreted as. Shimgray | talk | 20:45, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
Keep. This is consistent with the other ship lists. Sheesh. —Joseph/N328KF (Talk) 15:23, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep as well, unlike other lists this one is verifiable and maintainable (though possibly deprecatable when we're ready to redirect elsewhere).  RasputinAXP  talk contribs 21:32, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep as a valid, verifiable list. Turnstep 00:36, 8 January 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.