Talk:List of bagpipe makers

Linkspam
I suppose given that a list of makers is a list of businesses, most of whom are bound to be online, it seems rather daft to call it linkspam. On the other hand, not a web directory, etc, etc. I have cleaned the list up and stuck it on my watchlist. Most of the makers on here don't deserve a further article on their own, however some definitely do. I have also hacked off some of the dodgier names on the list (Hakum Din, I'm looking at you). Calum (talk) 19:08, 16 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Why should Hakam Din not be listed? Criteria for inclusion should not be quality, but notability.  In the case of Hakam Din, the sheer quantity of units they've moved must exceed 90% of the names on the current list, and probably exceeds the total of 50% of the list.  Opinions on quality (however well-shared by the GHB community) are beside the point.  Plus, I really hope the exclusion is not also based on the "foreignness" of the maker, not being part of the Anglo world, etc. MatthewVanitas (talk) 09:10, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Possible AfD
As far as I can tell, this article is an unencyclopedic directory and doesn't really belong here. Half of it is people and half is companies, so it's poorly defined...most of the names are and will always be redlinks, and a large number of those that aren't just happen to go to disambiguation pages or different people with the same name (for example, one goes to a TV show host). Can anyone give a good reason not to delete it? If I don't get a response in a couple days, I will probably take this to AfD. r ʨ anaɢ talk/contribs 11:44, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * To be honest, my main reason for preserving it when it last went for speedy deletion (as linkspam) was that most of the information will end up written into various articles anyway. I agree that a substantial number of entries aren't ever going to be written up into seperate articles anyway (but isn't that true of most lists?).  I do think a reasonably comprehensive listing is a useful thing to have online somewhere - what would we need to include to make this suitable for retention? Calum (talk) 07:21, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure. If it keeps on including companies, as it does now, it will be like a directory, which is one of the things Wikipedia is not.  If we trim it to be just notable people, it would be better as a category.  (Actually, even if we don't, it might be better as a category...it would be a small category since most of the names in here are not bluelinks, but it might be better than having this list.) r ʨ anaɢ talk/contribs 13:03, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

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