Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of companies based in Westport, Connecticut


 * 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   keep. JohnCD (talk) 22:49, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

List of companies based in Westport, Connecticut

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Indiscriminate scope so fails NOT Spartaz Humbug! 07:27, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete: I can't see how a list of this nature is notable. --Sgt. R.K. Blue (talk) 11:20, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Connecticut-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 14:24, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 14:25, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
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 * Keep: I don't want to remove the list of companies in every article in CT (ie: Milford,_Connecticut), and this is a standard practice (ie: List_of_companies_in_Seattle or List of companies in Houston. Best, Markvs88 (talk) 20:48, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Seattle and Houston are major American cities and are thus home to many more enterprises. I don't think that a standalone article is necessary for a smaller town like Westport (2010 population, 26,391). Imagine if every town in Connecticut—or even in the United States—had its own "List of companies in ..." article without some type of wider encyclopedic justification. I think instead that anything particularly noteworthy can be made into a section on Westport's article, as is done to a degree in the Milford article and others. --Sgt. R.K. Blue (talk) 09:04, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi RK. I don't disagree of course that Westport isn't Houston. However, it's not Lost City, West Virginia either. IMO, there are CT towns and cities that should follow this practice. Greenwich, New Haven, Hartford... and as for Westport, it has at least one Fortune 500 company, which puts it ahead of Buffalo, New York. Best Markvs88 (talk) 12:42, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I view whether or not this is worth separating from List of Connecticut companies or Westport, Connecticut as chiefly an editing decision, not one that should be resolved by AFD. So discussion over whether Westport is significant enough, or whether there are enough Westport notable companies, should be just occurring on a talk page, not here.  postdlf (talk) 16:15, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Question for nominator (i.e., "keep" if not answered satisfactorily): Can you explain how this list has an indiscriminate scope? Whether a company is based in a defined locale is clearly discriminate.  And it's completely run-of-the-mill practice to limit lists of companies however subdivided to companies that are notable (as we do with lists of people, lists of films, lists of books, etc.).  postdlf (talk) 19:32, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep - It needs some formatting but appears to me a useful article of which there are many others such as this one: [] but I suggest taking the word "based" out of the title.--LarEvee (talk) 21:50, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment No opinion about keeping or deleting, but I'd oppose removing "based" from the title — without it, we could justifiably include Wal-Mart, Subway, and every other national chain if they have locations in this town. Nyttend (talk) 01:32, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I thought that too, but it looks like it's standard for such lists to omit that from the title even though being based there is part of the criteria. I'm a bit surprised that doesn't make them harder to maintain for exactly the reason you raise regarding any chains operating there.  Probably better to add "based in" to the other lists than to omit it from this one.  postdlf (talk) 03:13, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep - A discriminate list, with an organized topical focus. Useful to include on Wikipedia. 71.237.197.56 (talk) 09:44, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep - A useful list as is the likes of other similar lists eg List of companies based in the Harrisburg area WestportWiki (talk) 00:49, 6 January 2012 (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.