Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of community gardens


 * 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   redirect to community gardening. Feel free to merge content from page history. Tim Song (talk) 02:11, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

List of community gardens

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Expand If the objection is that it is US-only, then the things to do is to expand it. There's a problem here we have no real way of handling: Very few such gardens will  merit complete articles, and at present we would normally incorporate some mention of them in the article on the community. We should have some way of bringing the material together. Perhaps a combination article of subp-notable things might be a good way to do it, but in only a few cases to we typically accept such articles.  DGG ( talk ) 21:56, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. This page has existed as a list of US only community gardens since 2007. If it were to be expanded to reflect the global nature of the title it would have 1000s of entries. It should be deleted since WP is not a directory.  Notable community gardens should have their own articles and listed at the community gardening page. There also appears to be little interest in maintaining the page and it is an orphan.  -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 07:29, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  -- -- Lear's Fool (talk | contribs) 10:39, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 *  delete . Merge anything appropriate, and redirect to community gardening. This list is currently indiscriminate. -- Quiddity (talk) 19:54, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 * My reason for deletion is that Wikipedia is not a directory. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 22:41, 26 March 2010 (UTC)


 * If kept, Rename to List of community gardens in the US. If someone wants to make a global list, this can be an main'd off list on that one. Would also be more balanced with this at some other name. 76.66.192.73 (talk) 04:46, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I have put a split proposal on the community gardening page to split out a Community gardening in the United States article. This proposed page could list notable community gardens (including the ones that have articles of course) rather than being a comp. I would oppose creating a List of community gardens in the US since it would still be a directory. They also won't be maintained if there is no interest from the WP community. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 05:44, 27 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep Many community gardens are notable and could probably have articles. This would qualify this page per WP:L. This needs to be wikified. Dew Kane (talk) 03:44, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I would say that "some" community gardens are notable not "many". There are some articles on community gardens so obviously theose ones are notable. They can be listed in the community gardening page. From my experience with lists I would say a list of community gardens would be a random, poorly maintained list. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 04:13, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JForget  00:17, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Delete community gardens, if not larger than say a city block, are essentially less notable than elementary schools, which dont get entries unless notable for some other reason. the list of notable community gardens will remain small, this list will only attract nonnotable additions. a category and a handful of articles on them is enough.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 05:35, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete There is no more need for a list of community gardens than farm coffee shops or newsagents. Any of these which are truly notable can be linked from the main article, the volume of them shouldn't prove overwhelming. Someoneanother 03:44, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Merge The list is currently too scrappy and does not contain many entries for gardens which have their own articles. But such notable gardens do exist; for example, see White House Vegetable Garden.  See also the coverage of the general topic at the Encyclopedia of Community.  This indicates that such gardens are known by many names, being the result of numerous different initiatives &mdash; moral gardens, war gardens, counter-culture gardens, etc.  For now, it seems best to merge the list back into Community garden and let the notable examples accumulate there.  As and when the list there becomes too large, it can be spun off into this separate appendix again. Colonel Warden (talk) 09:32, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I am warming to the idea of a redir rather than deletion. A merge however, based on the current content will result in systemic bias of the community gardening page (I assume you want it merged there). -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 21:23, 3 April 2010 (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.