Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/North America

WP:DELSORT/North America

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North America

List of telecommunications companies in the Americas

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This is basically a directory article again, WP:NOTADIRECTORY, we have categories for this. We don't need list article for this. Govvy (talk) 15:48, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Companies, Technology, Lists, South America, and North America. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 16:22, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Doczilla _{Ohhhhhh, no!} 17:18, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

keep. A reasonable navigation tool; only remove items without wikipedia articles. --Altenmann >talk 17:42, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Navigation tool? What's wrong with a category or a template? That doesn't really seem like a valid argument for keeping the article. Govvy (talk) 23:03, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Govvy: I agree that the argument might not be valid, but Altenmann has a point about navigation. If someone is reading Wikipedia and looking for a list of telecommunication companies in the Americas, they probably wouldn't look at a category, and a template would be wayyyy too long if we were listing all the companies. (For templates, though, we could split the companies up further into Telecommunications companies in X country, but frankly that would probably overcomplicate a lot of things and it would take up a lot of time.) Heck, before I dove deep into Wikipedia, I didn't even know what a category was. (I am only replying here, not in the other AfD to keep discussion centralized.) ‍Relativity ⚡️ 18:53, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:14, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. I'm not sure what part of WP:DIRECTORY this fails. This list does not consist of simple listings, the topics here are not loosely associated, not non-encylcopedic cross-categorizations, a genealogical entry, electronic program guide, or a resource for conducting business. Grouping telecommunication companies together by area sounds reasonable to me. We have lists like List of companies listed on the National Stock Exchange of India, how are those lists not directories when this one, apparently, is? IMHO I think that the North and South America telecom companies should be separated but this does not fail WP:DIRECTORY. ‍Relativity ⚡️ 18:47, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I fail to understand how this is any different to the previous List of telecommunications companies article I split it from.

I’m not going to get passionate about either position on the matter, I split the articles only for readability. Adriazeri (talk) 21:23, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That's very against WP:OR. There is nothing encyclopaedic about these articles. Govvy (talk) 21:35, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This has got nothing to do with WP:OR, what are you talking about? Adriazeri (talk) 21:37, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I also agree. I'm not seeing anything about these lists that violates WP:OR. ‍Relativity ⚡️ 22:39, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]