Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Important

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE. Golbez 07:06, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

Important
WP is not a dictionary. The lists will never be anything but POV. Andy M. 08:52, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. --Golbez 08:53, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - per nominator. --FCYTravis 10:11, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete My mom says I'm important. Can I add myself to the list? --Xcali 17:17, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unless there are articles about "important" (maybe a band,, a techincal term, etc). That's why [Wiktionary] was created, and this belongs there. (also check WP:WIN) drini &#9742; 17:25, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Classic encyclopedia article. Can be infinitely expanded.  No POV that I can see, it's reporting external sources that have labelled stuff "important". --Tony Sidaway|Talk 23:30, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * ... except in the sections on "important places", "important professions", and "important inventions", where it isn't. Removing the unsourced material leaves just List of Askmen.com's 10 most powerful men in the world and a duplicate of List of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of the 20th century. Uncle G 02:23, 2005 Jun 12 (UTC)
 * Well that's two. The article can be infinitely expanded to air hubs, ideas, world heritage sites, listed buildings, to name just four I grabbed off the first google page.  --Tony Sidaway|Talk 02:42, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * No, it's just one, as I said. All of your examples would be under more rational titles than "important" for English speakers, just as List of Askmen.com's 10 most powerful men in the world should be and List of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of the 20th century already is.  "Important" is an absurd title for any of those.  (The last one is actually about listed buildings, for example, as its very title tells you.)  Adjectives do not make encyclopaedia article titles.  Finding web pages about other things (such as world heritage sites and listed buildings &mdash; both of which also already have their own "lists of", note) that just happen to have the word "important" in their text does not demonstrate the contrary.  You're grasping at straws.  There's only one way that this title should be anything other than a redirect.  I've already pointed it out. Uncle G 03:21, 2005 Jun 12 (UTC)
 * Delete. Inchaote nontopic. Alleged topic not covered by any "classic" encyclopedia. Does not represent any well-defined single topic or concept, therefore has no potential to become encyclopedic. Dpbsmith (talk) 02:06, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Straw man argument. This isn't a "classic" encyclopedia, assuming such a thing exists. I think I've encountered this misreading of the term "classic enclypedia article" before. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 02:42, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * The article doesn't seem to be clearly about anything, and is just a collection of lists. This is what you get for not following the naming conventions (adjectives).  Only one of the lists is both (a) sourced and (b) not a substandard duplicate of an existing article, and that would be better served by being at List of Askmen.com's 10 most powerful men in the world, akin to the other list.  Excise the duplicate and unsourced contents leaving that 1 list and Rename to List of Askmen.com's 10 most powerful men in the world, adjusting the resultant redirect from the adjective important to point to the noun importance, ready for an article there or someone to decide to write about the record label. Uncle G 02:23, 2005 Jun 12 (UTC)
 * Delete. All delete reasons given are persuasive and correct.  Quale 19:44, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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