Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of countries by Human Development Index (2009)


 * 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 delete. Tone 07:22, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

List of countries by Human Development Index (2009)

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Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information and retaining a list of purely statistical data out of date by over a decade is not useful for readers and is likely to cause confusion. Similar lists for different years have been deleted before at Articles for deletion/List of countries by Human Development Index, 2005 and Articles for deletion/List of countries by Human Development Index (1998). ‑‑Trialpears (talk) 15:15, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Economics-related deletion discussions. ‑‑Trialpears (talk) 15:15, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. ‑‑Trialpears (talk) 15:15, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * I don't agree that "out of date" is a valid reason for deletion. Another way of saying that is "historical information" and historical information is exactly what should be in an encyclopaedia.  Note that the rationale for deleting the 1998 article was not that we should not have this information, but that the article data was wildly wrong due to the faulty way the page had been created.  However, I don't think it is helpful to have an individual article on each year's UN report.  Far more encyclopaedic would be trending information over the years.  The Human Development Index already contains summaries of each report going back to 2013 and that is probably what should happen here. SpinningSpark 17:42, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, TonyBallioni (talk) 04:51, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete No need to create separate page for every year. Mohanabhil (talk) 07:58, 17 March 2020 (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.