Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of banks in Switzerland


 * 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 was   no consensus. The discussion suggests that a second AfD may well result in deletion if the list is not reworked into something other than a link farm. Some added value (such as a table indicating size, geographical location etc.) would help here.  Sandstein  09:56, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

List of banks in Switzerland

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I have deleted the previous list and inserted a brand new one from the Swiss Banking Comission Site. the site swconsult.ch lists banks from 1997, some of which do not even exist, therefore cannot be used as a verifiable source. I have added external links to around 130 of the banks mentioned with plans to link the rest by Tuesday. Once completed, this article can be used to compliment the banking in Switzerland article and will be unique in the sense that no other site will provide this scope and depth with links to individual bank sites as this will. Throttlebay  talk  19:30, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not a directory. This is spam, even for notable companies. A category would do better here, as it would actually list articles Wikipedia has articles on. As of now, this is just a directory of off-site weblinks, and that's not an encyclopedia article. Little Red Riding Hood  talk  18:28, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete: Category would work better. Besides, the entire page could be replaced far more comprehensively using this link. Chasingsol (talk) 18:37, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment by nominator: Having had a look at Template:List of banks in Europe, it looks like every bluelink in that template could be deleted for the same reasons.   Little Red Riding Hood  talk  18:45, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Yikes! Chasingsol (talk) 18:48, 20 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete and consider policy-level deletion of similar lists pointed above by User:NurseryRhyme. Rationale: bank listings are too fluid to be tracked and updated reliably. Things got worse with the 2008 financial crisis developing into 2009 depression: banks go down and merge one by one and in droves, and a lot of small bank reorganizations are unnoticed by the media (who cares about a small bank when the big ones cry for help). These directories have any value only when complete and up-to-date, if not - delete. NVO (talk) 19:04, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. There's something to be said for a list of Swiss banks. The term swiss bank is notable enough, but this list doesn't offer anything a category couldn't and right now it's utter linkspam. - Mgm|(talk) 20:25, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete (A3) — Virtually no content; nothing but a linkfarm. MuZemike  ( talk ) 00:40, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Presumably this should look more like List of banks in the United Kingdom. Juzhong (talk) 00:47, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
 * keep and purge If the banks are limited to those notable, its a valid list, and would be more than a category if the date and locations were added. I suspect a good number of these would in fact warrant articles if checked. Although our category Banks in Switzerland, has only 22 included, the deWP category has 119, fully one-third of those here. Perhaps some hasty judgments above need some revision in view of that figure.  DGG (talk) 10:33, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Convert to a proper list -- This article is at present a link-farm. The value of lists such as this is to identify missing articles, but with the present structure this is impossible, becuase it is largely a list of external links, not a list of redlinks.  Since Switzerland is not an English-speaking country, it is not surprising that most of the banks do not yet have articles.  This really ought to be a long list of redlinks, which would encourage people to write articles on those banks that are notable.  It is no good replacing it with a category as that cannot handle red links.  Peterkingiron (talk) 00:03, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep and replace external links with wikilinks (yes, red-links if the article doesn't exist) for notable banks; the German category should give a rough idea of what Swiss banks are notable. DHowell (talk) 05:50, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete or (1) narrow scope of list (e.g., top 100 by assets) and (2) convert to a list with redlinks; imho a list with fewer redlinks would imply more notable banks, and support the inclusion of such a list -- Robocoder ( t|c ) 14:42, 23 December 2008 (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.