Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Olympus products

 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. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 02:08, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

List of Olympus products
Delete. Wikipedia is not a product catalog. See Deletion_policy/Brand_name_products for a general discussion. -- Egil 17:34, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, it's a list not a catalog. Kappa 18:56, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * The list itself has no value IMHO. Worse, the list suggests articles for every product. That would beyond any doubt constitute a product catalog. -- Egil 04:58, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep the list, but no articles for the products. -- 8^D gab 19:53, 2005 Apr 6 (UTC)
 * Why no articles for the products? I don't see how this is different to any of the thousands of articles on other products like PowerPC G4, Cray-2 etc etc etc. Lupin 22:18, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * The criteria is like for the rest of the encyclopedia. There should be articles for products of a certain notability. I am totally sure that if any, there are only very, very few Olympus products that has a degree of notability that they need an article. This list suggests an article per product, which is obviously nonsense. Perhaps some products are notable enough that they require a list of their own, but in that case they should be merged in the Olympus article. -- Egil 04:55, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Lupin 22:18, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep but de-redlink. Radiant_* 08:44, Apr 7, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep but it needs more info. -- Lochaber 13:27, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep some Olympus products (the XA, for example) do merit articles because of their notable design achievements. Others don't - but having a list seems an appropriate way to put the notable ones in context. Dystopos 23:52, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page kthxbai.