Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Ancient Structures

 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 keep and move to properly capitalized title. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 04:00, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

List of Ancient Structures
The author's definition of "ancient" seems slightly skewed. St. Paul's Cathedral and Cologne Cathedral at the very least are definitely not ancient. Ancient history in my book is around the time of Christ and prior to that, although the article states until around 476AD. This would leave the Colossus (spelt incorrectly here so it links incorrectly too), Pyramids and Lighthouse, all of which are in Seven Wonders of the World. Delete. Jamyskis 14:30, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Put a limit of built before 1300 (or another year if that's better) and keep. It is possible to create an objective criterion for inclusion in this list. Sjakkalle 15:05, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, with ancient defined. -- BD2412  talk  16:56, 2005 May 20 (UTC)
 * Keep with definition in article. Capitalistroadster 17:17, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak delete, or retitle (decapitalize last two words) and add definition of "ancient", for which 476 C.E. is better than 1300. Why are these structures sorted by height, and why is height data included rather than who built each structure, or estimated year of construction, or purpose of each structure?  List may not be completable, unless a minimum size of "structure" is defined; in any case it's incomplete, as there are many surviving pyramids from various Egyptian dynasties, plus some Assyrian ziggurats and Inca pyramids and such, that are older and larger than most of these entries.  Barno 18:07, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Since the Lighthouse at Alexandria no longer stands, this article if kept would also need a consensus on whether it includes structures surviving to the present. If so, there would be tens of thousands of structures to list, and hundreds would be notable (the equivalent of City Hall in ancient city, probably replaced once or twice per century), and very little of the information would be verifiable.  205.247.102.130 18:13, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I didn't really know what year draws the line for "ancient", but I just put in an arbitrary year and landed on 1300. If 476 is better I have no problem with it. Sjakkalle 07:38, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep for the 476 definition and some agreement on other inclusion criteria (although you can't include every nonstanding structure, the library is very notable). Also I agree that the title should be fixed.  --Laura Scudder | Talk 21:19, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
 * keep, fix, and expand. I should be able to find ancient structures in wikipedia. Kappa 22:09, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
 * keep but decapitalize it Yuckfoo 02:51, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
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