Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Microbial population biology references (2000)

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The result was Speedy (Deleted by the author)

[edit] Microbial population biology references (2000)

This is just a list of journal articles related to a particular field. No assertion of notability to any of them, or any explanation for why they are listed here. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Nor is it an article indexing service. Deprod-ed by author with the explanation "Explicit reference to article this entry is documentation for," where he also added a link to Microbial population biology. This article doesn't "document" anything presented at Microbial population biology, which has only a few paragraphs of useful text.

Also nominating:

• Microbial population biology references (2001)
• Microbial population biology references (2002)
• Microbial population biology references (2003)
• Microbial population biology references (2004)

eaolson 02:04, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

• Delete WP:NOT a list of all of the publications on a particular subject. --Daniel Olsen 02:16, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as the editor originally prod-ing one of these lists (2003?). Not only is Wikipedia not an indiscriminate collection of information, neither are we Google Scholar, JSTOR or any other database of citations of articles relating to a particular field. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 02:17, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete we are not an article database, and using a wiki like this is a very bad way of creating one. Note that this author has a history of posting every publication ever on a number of other microbiology and bacteriophage-related articles: phage meetings, phage monographs, the entire further reading section of phage ecology, the entirety of phage experimental evolution and cyanophage... He's also made some good contributions; I'm surprised no one has told him not to do this yet. Opabinia regalis 02:35, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Comment Oy vey. Some of those reference lists are the sorts of things a university professor would quietly dash off for a student in need of help. I'm sure they're exceptionally useful reading material, but a tad on the side of overkill. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 12:16, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

• Userfy all of these should be moved to User:Sabedon's userspace. Sabedon created all of them, and they seem to be potentially useful references for articles on Microbiology. Move them to userspace and leave a note for Sabedon. ~ ONUnicorn (Talk / Contribs) 17:36, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. I was the one who reluctantly prodded it, as it seems like it's very useful to someone, but it's just not an article. Mr Spunky Toffee 19:56, 21 October 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.