Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cars of the Philippines


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The result was   merge to Transportation in the Philippines.  MBisanz  talk 00:25, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Cars of the Philippines

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Per WP:IINFO this is just an endless list of cars with a shed-load of unsubstantiated subjectivity at the start in the section "Successful cars..." followed by another subjective collection of "Mainstream car makers". There is no value whatsoever added to Wikipedia by this article. Biker Biker (talk) 12:12, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom based on current content. However, if this article were changed to be a list of cars manufactured in the Philippines, not just sold there, it would have some value and would probably be worth keeping. That would require removing about 90% of the current content, though. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 17:49, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Philippines-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:31, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:31, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:31, 30 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Conditional keep, but with a major rewrite. There's plenty of coverage in Philippine newspapers like the Philippine Daily Inquirer, the Manila Bulletin and The Philippine Star about the auto industry in the Philippines (The Star even has a weekly motoring section). If the article were rewritten to be about cars actually manufactured in the Philippines (there are a number of companies that do so, notably Toyota), then this is worth keeping. With the sources available (and there's surely plenty of them), it won't be too difficult. Otherwise, delete the article and start all over again. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 10:21, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Rename & rewrite, if the subject is about automotive transportation in the Philippines I can see that being clearly notable. However, as it is presently written it is largely original research and subject to most of it being deleted per WP:BURDEN.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 20:43, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Merge & redirect to Transportation in the Philippines, there are plenty of historic and present criteria and simply original research. Also, a ton of listcruft. ApprenticeFan  work 16:52, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Heavily prune -- This article is largely a list of car models, mostly imports and theri impact on the local market, quite possibly not based on any good statistical research. Later, there is a a most of manufacturers, some of whom are stated to have manufacturing plants (possibly mere assembly plants) in the country.  This might form the basis of a shorter article Motor manufacture in the Phillipines.  Peterkingiron (talk) 22:17, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
 * 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.