Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of events known as crises


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The result was delete. --Core desat  20:50, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

List of events known as crises

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Del. A classical example of an indiscriminate collection of information, bundling together Software crisis, Iran hostage crisis, Abdication Crisis of Edward VIII and whats not. What next pointless list will be: List of events known as uprising, ...as revolt, ...as dawn? `'mikka 06:37, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletions.   -- SkierRMH 08:11, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - truly bizarre and pointless. If this was a dictionary, defining different types of crisis would make sense. Having these in a single encyclopedia article? Downright weird. - PocklingtonDan 09:36, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Known by whom as a crisis? No way of making this list useful or reasonably discriminate. Sjakkalle (Check!)  09:37, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete all subjective lists--Docg 10:46, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete pointless and subjective list. Wryspy 11:09, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep passes WP:LIST, useful for navigation, et cetera. Claims this list is subjective is not only false, but utterly bizzare.  I'm perplexed.  WilyD 14:59, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment Wouldn't doing a Wiki-search come up with the same results? Maybe. Bubba HoTep 15:15, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep If the inclusion criterion is subjective, then all the articles linked would need to be deleted. The list is of blue links and is a navigation device, not a new article. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 20:52, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. It's pretty random whether a particular event gets termed a "crisis" or something else. I remember during 1982 the BBC News used to report regularly about the "Falklands Crisis" and then suddenly started referring to it as the "Falklands War" once the shooting had started. If I was writing a dictionary definition, I would define a crisis as any state of events where vital interests are at risk and where a particular decision would have profound and immediate consequences. That could encompass almost every war, stock market crash, transportation disaster etc. Sam Blacketer 21:24, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete WP:LIST states that lists should be used if they group similar subjects and aid navigation. I do not believe this to be the case here. Although the topics enclosed in the list all have the word crisis in their title, their subject matters diverge greatly. As a result, the list includes topics ranging from Suez crisis to Energy crisis. TSO1D 21:38, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per User:PocklingtonDan and User:Wryspy.  •The RSJ•    Talk  |  Sign Here  01:47, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - I have to agree that the grouping here is relatively arbitrary, based as it is only on the use of the word "crisis" in the title of the article. -- Dmz5 *Edits**Talk* 06:11, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete In indiscriminate collection based on the inconsistent use of a word in a title. Maxamegalon2000 06:22, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per TSO1D. Crisis? What Crisis?. Ohconfucius 07:24, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not subjective, but clearly indiscriminate. The designation of events as "crises" in popular use is subjective, and the grouping of such events is more "linguistic trickery" than anything else. Choess 06:17, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Indiscriminate list. WMMartin 16:56, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
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