Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of books by title: 0-9 (2nd nomination)


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The result was Delete. WP:SNOWBALL. Hemlock Martinis 06:49, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

List of books by title: 0-9
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An attempt to maintain a list of all books with Wikipedia articles (over even more?) must obviously fail. If the list has any useful purpose, say for navigation, this would better be served by a category. On the other hand, if I know the title of a book, why not type it into the search bar?

I also nominate the other parts of this 27-page list:

Note: The previous nomination was procedurally closed because of joint nomination with other topics. See also precedents: Articles for deletion/List of Portuguese books by title, Articles for deletion/List of Brazilian books by title

--B. Wolterding 14:34, 16 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete all - This is a category masquerading as an article. The books on this list share no connection whatsoever with each other than that their titles begin with the same letter. The list is horribly unmaintainable and will never, ever be comprehensive. Wikipedia is not a directory, Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information, and Wikipedia is not a place for lists of loosely-associated topics. Delete all of these NOW! --Hnsampat 14:54, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete All per WP:NOT, which specifically prohibits "Lists of ... loosely associated topics." And I agree with nom that these lists attempt to serve a purpose much better handled by categories. -- Satori Son 15:07, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete All This isn't the Library of Congress card catalog. This is why we have categories, but there really shouldn't even be categories for the alphabetical entries.    Acroterion  (talk)  15:34, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete all, this is a textbook case of what categories are for, not articles. Any attempt to catalogue every book, Wikipedia article or otherwise, is doomed to failure as this list is inherently unmaintainable. ɑʀкʏɑɴ 15:35, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete the lot. I've racked my brains bu there is no way I can see that these serves a purpose, plus the maintenance element. Pedro | Chat  15:36, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete all - WP is not a book index and listing every book ever published seems trivial and is a list of loosely associated topics Corpx 16:44, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete ALL, per WP:NOT. This is what categories are for! Nen  yedi  • (Deeds•Talk) 16:47, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete all - THis article appears as Listcruft to me. In addition, it appears a huge hassel to attempt to maintain and keep updated. TheInfinityZero 16:54, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete all. This is an loose list.  Difficult to maintain with any degree of accuracy and the articles would become enormous (they're already really big).  These articles also fall under a collection of internal links.  Useight 18:14, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong Delete all As mentioned above, WP is not a list/catalog/index/etc.  It was well-intentioned, but it too difficult to maintain, and unnecessary.  A Category page would be better for this, but even that would be difficult to maintain as well.
 * Delete all Wikipedia is not a card catalog. This list is impossible to maintain. Comments for many others above are relevant. Flyguy649 talk contribs 19:19, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete ALL Dude, there are millions of books that have been created...all the lists cover only a fraction of it. It is simply unmaintainable.--PrestonH 20:21, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete all as per WP:NOT ¿SFGi Д nts!  ¿Complain! ¿Analyze! ¿Review! 20:48, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete all. Ugh.  Wasted Time R 21:44, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete all Unmaintainable, hopelessly incomplete.Man It&#39;s So Loud In Here 22:16, 16 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep Move to Meta or Categories. I created all these pages (and added the first several hundred titles) four years ago when there was no finding aid to serve the purpose.  This was before there were Categories to give users a sense of how many articles about books are in the WP database.  This was before there was an alphabetical index of the articles in WP so that people who don't know how to spell the title correctly can browse to see if an article already exists.  This was before Wikipedia: Notability (books) was written to explain that this was never intended to list every book written, only those notable enough for an article.  I agree that they're not appropriate articles for the main namespace any more, but please move them to Meta, or a subpage of Wikiproject:Books, so that the members of Wikiproject:Books can work on assigning all the articles on this useful checklist to Categories.  Thanks.  GUllman 22:57, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree, the list may have had a good purpose 4 years ago. But with Wikipedia having expanded at an enormous rate, it's about time to remove it, since it has become unmaintainable. You can of course have it moved to your user space (and then move it to anywhere you think it's reasonable). --B. Wolterding 15:55, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I can already see the writing on the wall, and have started moving all the pages to a subpage of Wikiproject Books before the vote is final. In fact, all of the literary lists can have a home there until they have been sorted into categories.  Problem is, the hierarchy of the current categories stills need to be better organized. GUllman 17:42, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NOT. JPG-GR 01:23, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, far too generic and would be much better maintained through categorization. Yamaguchi先生 04:33, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete unmaintainable list(s). feydey 15:46, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete all easier to use categories, I would think. Ealdgyth | Talk 17:01, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete all, unmaintainable lists. --musicpvm 04:45, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
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