Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of articles about abortion by country


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The result was   delete.  MBisanz  talk 15:44, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

List of articles about abortion by country

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Was prodded due to articles best being presented in categories, editor removed prod tags. Russavia Dialogue Stalk me 06:31, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - unnecessary list. Category:Abortion by country already provides this. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 07:23, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:LC item 7. Stifle (talk) 12:50, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment. A list to supplement the category might be useful to call attention to articles yet uncreated.  This list apparently does not. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 14:13, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete redundant to a pre-existing category and per WP:LC. Doc StrangeMailbox Logbook 15:12, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. Please see very large list of links to this article: . This list helps to better organize WP content on the abortion subjects.Biophys (talk) 17:40, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Organisation of content is what categorisation is for. --Russavia Dialogue Stalk me 04:23, 11 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete: a category is enough for this. Alexius08 (talk) 04:56, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I re-targetted a couple of links in abortion law templates to the better Abortion_law, which should get rid of many incoming links. Many others come from Template:Abortion, which has a link labelled "abortion by country". This initially seemed necessary, but the main article also has the abortion by country template at the top, right under Template:Abortion, so navigation through the main template is probably enough for those.--chaser - t 15:30, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Or change to category or template. I don't mind the notion of some navigational help in getting a worldwide view of abortion, but having an article like this is a self reference and is kind of superfluous to a category.  a template might be nice/helpful, but that is an editorial decision. Protonk (talk) 17:07, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.   --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  23:48, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. Navigational list. All delete votes are of the "redundant with category" variety, which is always wrong per our guideline on the subject at WP:CLN. AndyJones (talk) 20:06, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment - I've just read the guideline (thanks for ref) and I'm not sure that it applies to this particular list. This is a list of articles that are on Wikipedia - which is exactly what the existing category does - rather than a list of things. Would it not be better, for this particular case, to have a navigational template? Beeswaxcandle (talk) 06:46, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * That's exactly what the guideline says. You don't choose which is better; you can have both. AndyJones (talk) 08:05, 14 October 2008 (UTC)


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