Category talk:Lists of companies by country

List of efforts to address this category by date

 * 2005-11-05 Articles for deletion/Lists of companies - The result of the debate was keep.
 * 2006-06-08 Articles for deletion/List of British companies - The result of the debate was delete.
 * 2006-11-16 Articles for deletion/List of Peruvian companies - The result was keep, nomination withdrawn.
 * 2007-06-20 Articles for deletion/List of Japanese companies - The result was keep.
 * 2007-06-20 Articles for deletion/Lists of companies (2nd nomination) - The result was delete.
 * 2007-07-09 Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 July 4 - The result of the debate was keep
 * 2007-07-11 Articles for deletion/List of Greek companies - The result was Keep, certainly no consensus to delete.
 * 2007-07-11 Articles for deletion/List of Singapore companies - The result was Keep - despite earlier warnings that I shouldn't explain my evaluation of the consensus, here it seems pretty clear. One unexplained comment to delete, and although it's suggested categories are better than lists, the general feeling seems to be that lists are useful in their own right. Redirection is mentioned, and can always be discussed as an editorial decision, but doesn't seem to have much support.
 * 2007-07-14 Articles for deletion/List of Companies in Bangladesh - The result was Speedy close; take it to DRV
 * 2007-07-15 Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals) - Lists versus categories: a very particular case. - no consensus
 * 2007-07-15 Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Lists - Lists versus categories: a very particular case - no consensus

Comments
Several of these lists have been put on proposed deletion or AfD. Is this category and its lists worth having?--T. Anthony 07:14, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, I think it is. What it lacks at the moment is someone maintaining it. I'll see what I can do. Paxse 15:54, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree with Paxse. I'm not supporting the need for categories (have no personal experience with them), but find lists easy to maintain and easy to navigate, especially when divided into industry topics and rid of redlink insertion spam. -LeyteWolfer 05:44, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

For many lists we have double entries: in the main category and in the subcategorie with *, so that - for example List of companies of Iran. This is not necessary I think. --House1630 (talk) 19:41, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Should Kuwait be revived?
See Articles for deletion/List of Kuwaiti companies.--T. Anthony (talk) 00:31, 6 July 2008 (UTC)