Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of -meters


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The result was Keep and Rename to List of measuring devices.  E LIMINATOR JR  22:36, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

List of -meters

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WP:NOT and WP:NOT; the main problem with this list is the indiscriminate inclusion criterion; grouping words together just because they are "formed from the suffix -meter." These do happen to be instruments, but sharing the same sequence of letters isn't an encyclopedic way of grouping instruments. Masaruemoto 03:43, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletions.   -- John Vandenberg 03:56, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment I can see real use for this one. "What's that thing? It's a meter that measures chocolate sweetness, I forget what you call it. You know, it's a...." MarkBul 04:49, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - Utility does not warrant inclusion. While I did find the list interesting, we don't collect lists of arbitrary information ("stuff used to measure other stuff").  /Blaxthos 06:57, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, indiscriminate list of things that just happen to have similar names. J I P  | Talk 07:36, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Rename to List of measuring devices, and base the inclusion criterion on the concept of measuring, rather than on the spelling of the word. While we have Category:Measuring_instruments, the list is more useful for navigation because it has annotations that are not possible in a category, and because it can have entries that don't have an article yet. While usefulness by itself is not enough reason to keep an article, navigational pages (such as disambiguation pages and some lists) exist solely because they are useful for navigation, not because of encyclopedic notability. --Itub 08:32, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep as per Itub and MarkBul (who didn't vote keep, but helped make the sale for me) If there's not a list of measuring devices, then there should be.  That's what this is, since it doesn't include things like kilometers, parameters, diameters or parkingmeters. Mandsford 14:25, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Rename Itub's got a good idea. "Stuff used to measure other stuff" per Blaxthos is a drastic oversimplification.    Acroterion  (talk)  16:56, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep and rename per Itub. The title as given sounds like classic listcruft, but the article is not. DGG (talk) 04:17, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
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