Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Software companies in India

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 delete. --Coredesat 01:55, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Software companies in India

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While an analysis of the software companies (which I presume must have been the original intent of the article) would have been great, it has turned out to be mainly a directory listing, outweighing any analysis that might be present. Wikipedia is not a directory. If indexing all the articles is the point, it is better achieved using a category (or category tree). Removing the listing and leaving the article also runs the risk of developing into a directory yet again, thereby making it almost impossible to maintain. soum ^talk 16:10, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

• Delete This reminds me of a list of law firms that got deleted because it had no criteria for inclusion. I have no idea how many of these exist, but it clearly has the potential to balloon indefinitely. If some way of restricting this to the top 100 firms were proposed, it would be more maintainable, but it would probably still be better to start from scratch.--Chaser - T 17:19, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Weak Delete with Comment, the article seems to branch out and such and doesn't seem to be focused on the list in the first place as it has that other junk near the top like "Indian IT majors". OSborn 18:16, 13 June 2007 (UTC) Update: Yeah, it'll just reform into a list. Doesn't really seem to be a needed list, is there a list of software developers with a "Country" heading on Wikipedia? OSborn 19:18, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletions. -- -- pb30<talk> 18:22, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, after 6 months, the list has grown (ballooning as per Chaser above), but no clear rule for inclusion/exclusion appears to exist. The sole reason for the list appears to be to validate the opening sentence - that there are a lot of software companies in India. Pever 01:04, 15 June 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.