Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Asia-related topics - A

 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 NO CONSENSUS. dbenbenn | talk 16:22, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

List of Asia-related topics - A
(also, B-Z) This attempts to be an alphabetical index of a very large partition of all Wikipedia topics. Its usefulness seems obsoleted by the category system ([Category:Asia] and its many subs). Should we keep this? No vote for now. Radiant! 11:16, Feb 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, made obsolete by categories -- Ferkelparade &pi; 12:39, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - redundant with cats. Should be checked for actual redundancy with the cat - David Gerard 14:36, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete just way too broad for a useful list. I can't imagine anyone actually using this: "Ok, I've decided to write my term paper on Asia... but only Asian things that start with the letter C". Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  20:35, Feb 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Use categories instead. An alphabetical index isn't very useful for this subject. Carrp | Talk 20:40, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. You cannot use categories for the important function "Related changes". AFAIK this has been the major purpose of all List of xyzzy-related topics articles, such as List of mathematical topics, etc.. Mikkalai 20:51, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per above because categories cannot be annotated, or include alternate names. Kappa 22:34, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, duplicates category, not very useful. Megan1967 00:36, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - Related changes has worked with categories since the last software upgrade. - SimonP 02:35, Feb 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * I realize the herculaneity of it, but that would mean a lot of lists would be better off as categories. Radiant! 09:45, Feb 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Currently, "Related changes" does not includes articles within subcategories.  Until Mediawiki provides a way to see all the related changes among subcategories, these indexes are useful.  Kusunose 09:08, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Interesting point. I suppose that feature request has been made somewhere? Because as I understand, one of the points of categories is that they're self-updating, whereas lists have to be kept manually. So in principle I would prefer categories. Unless they're buggy in some way. Radiant! 09:45, Feb 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Should only be deleted if it could not be of any use to anyone. Deletion on the basis that some people prefer another system is an attack on the flexibility of Wikipedia. Wincoote 23:40, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually, having two separate and divergent indexing systems is Considered Harmful. Radiant! 16:16, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete --Paraphelion 02:03, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, until the bit about related changes for subcategories gets implemented. We have loads of "List of foo related topics", and I don't think nominating one is the right way to address these issues.  Isn't there somewhere else more appropriate to discuss it?  dbenbenn | talk 16:22, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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