Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of tropical depressions
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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 was delete. causa sui (talk) 00:15, 29 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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This article is incomplete and is an orphan. It gives a list of non-notable storms, TD's occur all the time. Wikipedia is not a directory last time I checked. YE Pacific Hurricane 03:43, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - I copied and pasted the article to my userspace.--12george1 (talk) 03:52, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment This is against Wikipedia rules; see WP:Cut-and-paste moves. I have deleted the page; if this AFD closes as "Delete", let me know, and I will move the article to your user space. -RunningOnBrains(talk) 13:27, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Yes, you can move it to my userspace. Move it to the page that you deleted.--12george1 (talk) 16:29, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment This is against Wikipedia rules; see WP:Cut-and-paste moves. I have deleted the page; if this AFD closes as "Delete", let me know, and I will move the article to your user space. -RunningOnBrains(talk) 13:27, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. — --Darkwind (talk) 03:56, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. — --Darkwind (talk) 03:56, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep. Article may be useful to some. There is no reason for deletion. Xxanthippe (talk) 04:00, 21 July 2011 (UTC).[reply]
- Delete. The list is impossible to finish. There are thousands of tropical depressions across the world, and keeping them all in one article is hardly encyclopediac. Last time I checked, Wikipedia isn't meant to be a "list or repository of loosely associated topics", nor "an indiscriminate collection of information". --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 04:43, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep Well sourced, cohesive topic that isn't indiscriminate. If it limits itself to storms for which V is met, it will be incomplete, which is fine: we don't/can't cover things for which we don't have documentation, so holding that against the list article doesn't make sense. Jclemens (talk) 05:07, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- The topic would certainly be indiscriminate if it was even halfway complete. The article is a completely unfinished list spanning a short time period. Technically it should refer to every single tropical cyclone that had its impetus as a tropical depression. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 05:19, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete because it's impossible to maintain anything like a good list of something so numerous. Better handled as a category. -- 202.124.72.254 (talk) 09:16, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete' would be impossible to maintain and complete, in the first place. Wikipedia is not a directory, as said by Yellow Evan. Hurricanefan25 tropical cyclone 15:03, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete': There's no real use for this article or purpose to this article. Again, per above, it fails WP:DIRECTORY. Darren23Edits|Mail 16:10, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete as indiscriminate; akin to List of thunderstorms. Juliancolton (talk) 20:47, 27 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- 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.