Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Public market

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 was keep without prejudice to whether or not this should be redirected to farmer's market, which requires further discussion (prob on the article's talkpage). WjBscribe 02:21, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Public market

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This is a short no-context or dic-def article with the potential to be a simple business directory listing. WP is not Yellow Pages and just about every town has a public market - with bigger cities having several. B1atv 17:36, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Delete or redirect to farmer's market to avoid COI of future contributors who "add their own" --Keeper76 18:42, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Weak keep or delete without prejudice - it's a valid topic for an article, but there's no point in having an unmaintained one liner that contains more advertising than content. --B 19:53, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Redirect per Keeper76 WP:NOT a directory, list of indiscriminate info, link farm. Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 20:55, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Redirect - I agree that farmer's market is a much better known term. --SGT Tex 21:00, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Keep. It's a short article about a notable subject but so what? Nothing advertising or yellow pages about it. Wikidemo 21:02, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Keep This article contains good information. Public Markets are not synonymous with public markets. A disambiguation link could be added to the farmers market page if there is a concern about confusion. That being said some information needs to be added to the top differentating public markets from farmers markets or at least providing some overview of the topic so it's not just a directory.--Rtphokie 15:24, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

• comment I don't think this should be redirected to Farmers' Markets as the two are not the same. There is no reason why an article on Street Markets couldn't be written but this isn't it - and lack of a decent article is no reason to keep a poor article. This discussion has alerted me to the "lists of farmers markets" articles - I don't think they should exist either; but I will await the result of consensus on this article prior to nominating those for deletion. B1atv 15:13, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
• Keep - a public market is different from a farmer's market, the article just needs some work.--Christopher Allen Tanner, CCC 21:34, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
• Keep - Christopher Allen Tanner is correct. Famer's markets are different than public markets. Both are encyclopedic topics. --Oakshade 01:25, 18 September 2007 (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.