Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of environmental laws by country


 * 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. (non-admin closure) &mdash;  Yash [talk] 05:40, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

List of environmental laws by country

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This is a list of mainly redlinks that is not going to come to much for quite some time, making it of little use to readers. I had moved it to project namespace as a to-do list but there was an objection (later changed to a support). See the discussion at Talk:List_of_environmental_laws_by_country. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 23:30, 3 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep and improve. This has been thoroughly discussed already on the article's talk page. The result was "No Consensus". Some editors, myself included, see value in retaining the article despite the large number of redlinks. Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 23:38, 3 January 2013 (UTC)


 * P.S. As noted on the article's talk page, some of the listings for particular countries are reasonably well developed and can and perhaps should be spun off as articles in themselves. This is indicative of the value of the present article as an 'incubator'. And I think it would be an unnecessary loss to delete this article en masse. I agree that the incubator function can be accomplished by other means, but see no compelling reason to delete this article. Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 13:25, 4 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Environment-related deletion discussions. 23:39, 3 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep and improve. This seems no less valid than any member of . List of anti-discrimination acts, in particular, may serve as a model for this article. I suspect some of these redlinks should stay to encourage creation, while others are too obscure, and the value of listing them can be discussed on the talk page. But I don't see a valid rationale for deletion. A large number of redlinks is no reason to delete. Environmental law is plenty notable, and by established practice, lists of legislation are valid topics for articles. --BDD (talk) 23:58, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions. --BDD (talk) 23:59, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. --BDD (talk) 23:59, 3 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep if the question is too many redlinks, then delink anything that's unlikely to ever become an article. A comprehensive list of environmental laws would, if it were even reasonably complete, be a great resource. So - the content is notable, the scope of the list is - or can be - reasonably defined, and it appears to be in keeping with WP:LISTS. Guettarda (talk) 00:20, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment. If it can not be kept in article space as it is, then move it to user space for the necessary improvements before its restoration to article space.—Wavelength (talk) 00:37, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Create the articles first, then use categories to tie them together. - MrX 01:29, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep. Per guidelines, the question is whether this "group or set" is notable. I think environmental policies of different nations probably are. Most nations have some Environment/Interior Secretary/Minister/Director, indicating this list isn't just made arbitrarily. Indeed, there are international environmental groups (both UN organizations and NGOs) that document environmental policies on a broad scale, so this matter has been "discussed as a group or set by independent reliable sources." -- Lord Roem ~ (talk) 01:45, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep, quite educational and encyclopedic topic material, useful for readership and editors alike. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 04:38, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep. definable, notable (both individual laws and how environmental protection is legislated globally)...we just need to do some writing...Casliber (talk · contribs) 01:06, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep Good to know the names of all the environmental laws in each nation. Not all of them are blue linked yet, but even just this alone is good encyclopedic content.   D r e a m Focus  17:18, 8 January 2013 (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.