Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of alkanes

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. -R. fiend 04:16, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] List of alkanes

This list is superfluous next to Category:Alkanes; it can never be complete, as is pointed out on the talk page. Physchim62 14:16, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Delete. The only information of (possible) use are the names of alkanes (C=37 to 100), which should possibly be outlined on the main alkane page? -- postglock 15:27, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Listing these on the main alkane page would push that article over the reasonable limit for article sizes. - Mgm|^(talk) 09:22, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Keep Useful list. Definitely not superflous next to Category:Alkanes. Issues on talk page are for editors to deal with, and are not a valid deletion criterion. -- Decumanus 06:15, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. The list orders the alkanes by number of carbon atoms, gives molecular formulas and synonyms. None of which can be done in a category without a lot of unneccesary duplicate links. This is NOT superfluous! - Mgm|^(talk) 09:21, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment: Template:Alkanes also lists alkanes by number of carbon atoms and gives molecular formulae... Physchim62 11:02, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep I know just enough about chemistry to agree with Decumanus and MGM. Xoloz 09:59, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, and then redirect to Category:Alkanes --New Progressive 20:21, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
• KEEP, Lists and Cats are not the same thing, and a list of alkanes can do so much more with ordering and names than the cat. (Not to mention, mentioning ones that are currently articleless) 132.205.93.89 22:46, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep A template is not practical for branched isomers, which is something that this list could do easily. I agree with Mgm that this is no task for the category page alone. -- Rune Welsh ταλκ 23:01, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep I agree, it is a useful list and can be expanded more than a cat can. Maltmomma ^(chat) 23:51, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep I have no problem with this article. Alf ^melmac 13:27, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nominator. Pilatus 12:33, 14 October 2005 (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.