Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Nebraska-related topics


 * 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 of the debate was no consensus, default action is keep. Babajobu 09:08, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

List of Nebraska-related topics
This sort of thing is exactly what categories are for. -R. fiend 18:07, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * If that is the case, then why do state topic lists exist at all on Wikipedia? I do agree that this article does overlap with the Nebraska category; in addition, I almost always use the category listing instead of the topics list when browsing a set of related articles.  However, I see no harm in providing an alternate listing of Nebraska-related articles for those who don't find browsing by category all that intuitive, especially when a precedent has been established for topic lists by state.  Unless you're willing to put all state topic lists for discussion on AfD, I see no reason to delete this article. – Swid (talk 19:35, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * This is the only one I happened upon, but if there are ones for the other states that are resonably identical, then sure, they should all be put up together. -R. fiend 19:38, 15 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Comment: this is really task for categories. Pavel Vozenilek 19:48, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong opposition, as the primary creator and editor of the List of Kansas-related topics. The reason given is that this "is exactly what categories are for", but I have yet to see any state category that lists a wide variety of topics related to that state in an alphabetical fashion.  Category:Kansas has several subcategories and several articles, but it is in no way a comprehensive list.  Furthermore I am always disappointed when people nominate lists simply because they have an anti-list bias, and they believe that categories are the solution to everything.  Categories have a use for organizing articles into a tree-like structure, but they are not the same thing as lists, nor will they ever be (in my lifetime at least).  —Mike 05:07, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep Categories and lists can serve similar purposes, but this is well-organized, useful to some, and not really bothering me in terms of WP:NOT or anything like that. (ESkog)(Talk) 12:22, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep We have one for every state (I think). savidan(talk) (e@) 07:58, 24 February 2006 (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.