Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Index of standards articles

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 no consensus. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 12:00, 22 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Index of standards articles

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Arbitrary and outdated list Rathfelder (talk) 22:53, 7 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It's not a list, it's an Indice, which was a early form of categorisation. Prince of Thieves (talk) 23:02, 7 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. What is arbitrary about it, and why is being outdated a reason for deletion? --Michig (talk) 07:34, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
It looks like a list to me. There are hundreds of articles about standards. These are just sorted alphabetically - a mixture of weights and measures, accounting, railways and computer protocols. The article as a whole does not contain any useful information. It's just a directory. Rathfelder (talk) 15:34, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
It is part of the now mostly defunct Portal:Contents/Indices. Prince of Thieves (talk) 15:45, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 10:15, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, no compelling reason given not to keep. · · · Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 20:57, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep looks lie a valid part of an old portal or something, which is fine as a list. Prince of Thieves (talk) 21:58, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
If it was useful once it isn't now.Rathfelder (talk) 19:29, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, but there are several hundred of these, maybe more, and I feel a wider discussion, or maybe a formal proposal would be the most efficient way of dealing with them if they need dealing with. There is some kind of portal/navigational system here. In the meantime there is no policy based reason I feel comfortable with to delete this one. Prince of Thieves (talk) 22:58, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
WP:DIRECTORY Rathfelder (talk) 20:53, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Which does not help at all, we don't apply WP:DIRECTORY to categories. Nor to lists of related articles. And WP:INDICES is about as helpful as a glass hammer. Prince of Thieves (talk) 20:58, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The whole point is that this list is not a category. It's a poorly conceived directory, a list of loosely associated topics Rathfelder (talk) 22:02, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This is not a category, no. It is, however, a navigational aid similar to a category. The arguments begin made for deletion here would apply to every Index article. If we want to stop having such articles, an RfC or other wide-ranging discussion to do away with such would be the way to go. DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 03:12, 22 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I thought something like that was probably the situation here. Prince of Thieves (talk) 10:08, 22 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Duplicates category system with no added value, more maintenance overhead. Sandstein 10:32, 22 March 2018 (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.