Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Canadian library associations


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The result was redirect to List of library associations. (non-admin closure) Winged Blades of Godric On leave 08:58, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

List of Canadian library associations

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WP:INDISCRIMINATE list of every single library association that exists at all in Canada, regardless of notability or lack thereof -- it even includes separate entries for local chapters of national organizations, local health and prison and other specialty libraries of no discernible public interest, international organizations which merely include Canada in their service area, and on and so forth. Very few of the organizations listed here have articles at all, and even some of the ones that do may not actually qualify for them -- on a random spotcheck of two articles, one was referenced entirely to its own self-published content about itself with no evidence of reliable source coverage shown at all. And I suspect the real reason for this article was to create a search engine: until I cleaned it up for WP:ELNO compliance just now, every entry also included a direct offsite link to the organization's own web page, which is not what Wikipedia lists are for. There's no need for us to maintain a list that consists almost entirely of permanent redlinks, especially when the relatively few notable entries are already included in List of library associations anyway. Bearcat (talk) 17:55, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Museums and libraries-related deletion discussions.  M assiveYR   ♠  20:15, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  M assiveYR   ♠  20:15, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions.  M assiveYR   ♠  20:15, 30 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:NOTINDISCRIMINATE. For the few blue-link list entries a few of them could do with an AfD as well. Ajf773 (talk) 10:12, 1 October 2017 (UTC)
 * If not kept as a separate page, redirect to List of library associations, as an obvious search term whose content is covered at that larger page. postdlf (talk) 18:46, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:29, 3 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Redirect to List_of_library_associations, to avoid duplication of content. Patar knight - chat/contributions 00:30, 8 October 2017 (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.