Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Allis-Chalmers tractors


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.  

The result was No Consensus to Delete. Disagreement over whether the two books used as references establish notability. Would strongly recommend removing most of the redlinks as an editing decision. Davewild (talk) 18:40, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

List of Allis-Chalmers tractors

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No assertion of notability; just a list of tractors (all but one of them redlinks) made by a particular company. Before anyone cites WP:OSTRICH: no, I don't know much about tractors, but this seems a clear WP:IINFO violation. The topic appears to be far too specific, esoteric and of narrow interest to merit inclusion in an encyclopedia. Biruitorul (talk) 18:17, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete uninformative list of model numbers, possible copyvio from the sources given at the bottom, which are books. Redlinkfarm. Fee Fi Foe Fum (talk) 08:59, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep Lots of people are vintage tractor enthusiasts (I've been dragged to enough ploughing matches to know that). This topic may be of limited interest to most Wikipedians, but that does not mean that large numbers of people in the real world would not be interested in it. The article is sourced from two published books . The "also bought" section in those Amazon pages shows there is a market for these type of books, which shows notability. There is absolutely no proof of a copyvio from these books, especially since there are two references. Category:Lists of automobiles shows that there is precedent for this type of article. A redlinkfarm is a good reason for keeping the article, since it shows where Wikipedia is missing articles in a generally under-represented part of Wikipedia. Bláthnaid 11:50, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Plow this under. Lots of subjects have books written about them. That doesn't mean they should all be included. Are these specific models of tractor notable enough for standalone articles? Not at all likely, so there's no reason to keep a redlink farm to show what's missing. Clarityfiend (talk) 12:15, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep The point of a list--one point of a list--isfor items that are not sufficiently notable for an article.DGG (talk) 08:23, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
 * True, but are the redlinks needed? Without them, I'd be more open to keeping. Biruitorul (talk) 17:51, 11 December 2007 (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.