Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of HTML decimal character references (4th nomination)


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The result was Delete. Essjay  ( Talk )  09:39, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

List of HTML decimal character references

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I know it was already voted 3 times to deletion and voted to keep. But I believe it happened because of odd reasons, explained bellow.

The Unicode reference is very usefull, and was already properly added in wikipedia. However, for its insane size (more than 1 million characters) it was removed from wikipedia. It was resurected in wikisource, which recently was also removed from there. Actually it was hidden in wikibooks as part of "Windows Programming" book. So I re-moved it to its own book (Unicode book), so hopefully it will be easier to be found.

Why the hell I'm talking about Unicode, in a HTML characters article? It is because this page is in fact a Unicode reference, NOT HTML. It still persists "as useful" because there is no Unicode reference in wikipedia, for the reasons told above.

As most of the "keep" previous votes was because "it is useful", and because it is a shame to wikipedia this article still remaining as it is, I am providing the link to wikisource so you can compare

Note: It is a ambiguity why this page is so protected, still the Unicode reference was deleted from here and wikisource. So I will simply move this page to "Unicode reference" if this page will be kept again. And, please, don't vote keep just because it survived 3 times.

Note 2: if you compare the 2 tables, note this article's reference is in Decimal, and the reference in wikibooks is in hexadecimal. Beyond that it is the same.

Reasons
 * It is a single implementation of Unicode. This list is not part the HTML pattern at all. There are many Unicode implementations out there (Java, Linux, etc...).
 * There is a much better, already divided, complete Unicode reference in wikibooks
 * It is not enciclopedian (it is a reference table - of 1M characters -, and its not an article)
 * It is still too big, incomplete, with broken links, misguiding, and will ever be.

Resolution
 * Delete- For the reasons I listed above. SSPecter talk &spades;  10:34, 16 December 2006 (UTC).
 * Delete I would say move to wikibooks, but it is already there. Someone should double check to make sure there isn't anything to transwiki first. Koweja 16:11, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Delete: Delete this, and then add the link to the wikibook on Character encodings in HTML. Obviously, we really don't need duplicates.
 * COMMENT - Please provide links to other 3 deletion reviews This is unfair double jeopardy in my eyes. TonyTheTiger 18:29, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
 * See Talk:List of HTML decimal character references. ~ trialsanderrors 22:01, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Here are the links: 1st nomination, 2nd nomination, 3th nomination.  SSPecter talk &spades;  10:56, 17 December 2006 (UTC).
 * Move to Wikipedia namespace List of HTML decimal character references 132.205.93.88 03:49, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. WP:NOT a technical manual; redundant to Wikibooks version. Sandstein 16:24, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
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