Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of United States corporate headquarters


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The result was   delete. \ Backslash Forwardslash / (talk) 01:17, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

List of United States corporate headquarters

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Is this article really meant to list the headquarters of every corporation in the United States? It hasn't been updated since 2004. Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 04:33, 16 August 2009 (UTC)


 * I know nothing about this article's creation but if it was not intended to be a list of all corporations or some sort of major cross-section thereof, then it is mistitled (meaning that this article should be deleted). Assuming it was really intended to be a general list of headquarters
 * To begin with list articles are discouraged so any list-type article should have a compelling reason for its creation (e.g. it is important for explaining some important topic where the list would make the article on that topic too long).
 * A list of even a major cross-section of corporate headquarters would be huge and hard to keep current. Not a very practical thing to do as a Wikipedia article.
 * How does this really matter? Granted the information may be useful for statistics gathering but what is the notability of the information itself in terms of appearing as an encyclopedia article?
 * I can't see a reason to keep this.
 * --Mcorazao (talk) 04:45, 16 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete, it stops at Bechtel. Unmanageable from the outset. Abductive  (reasoning) 11:52, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete This is an orphaned list that stopped halfway through the "A"s in 2005. A few people took it on as a foster child that proved to be too difficult to take care of.  There were some additions to bring it part of the way through the "B"s, before realizing that it was too wide in scope and more trouble than it was worth.  WP:NOTDIR obviously applies to this, it's practically the yellow pages without a street address and phone number.  Nor is it terribly useful, even if its completed, since it gives little clue as to the metro area where the HQ is located (Maplewood and Eden Prairie, two of the first four entries, are the Minneapolis- St. Paul area).  I'll just have to laugh if someone brings up the (puke) "there is no deadline for improvement" argument.  I don't forsee that anyone would have time to do the hard work of completing this list.  Mandsford (talk) 14:19, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. As this is an alphabetical list, it doesn't add any more value than just looking up the articles on the respective corporations to find out where their headquarters are. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 18:12, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
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