Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of golf courses in Canada


 * 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. v/r - TP 02:06, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

List of golf courses in Canada

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WP is not a directory. What's next, List of nightclubs in London, List of coffe shops in Australia? TBM10 (talk) 19:59, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions.  — • Gene93k (talk) 23:22, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Golf-related deletion discussions.  — • Gene93k (talk) 23:23, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  — • Gene93k (talk) 23:23, 5 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep – Per Wikipedia is not a directory, the article is appropriate, as the article has an organized focus and is not, per Wikipedia directory guidelines, like "Lists or repositories of loosely associated topics". The article can also serve to promote the creation of new articles for notable golf courses. Northamerica1000 (talk) 01:37, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment – Also, the article completely passes all eight points of WP:NOTDIRECTORY guidelines.
 * While I can go along with this list being encyclopedic, the problem with starting it is maintaining it. There are hundreds of courses that could be listed, and the list changes somewhat every year. Unless the list is deliberately NOT made comprehensive, it will become outdated over time, just like linkrot affects external links.  And  if it's decided not to be comprehensive, do we just use whatever people add to the list?  How will we ensure that no bogus entries are added?  PK  T (alk)  11:56, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment – I suspect the majority of golf courses are members of their respective provincial golf associations. These membership lists should be maintained regularly by the golf associations. If so, the lists should serve as references and link rot may be minimized. If we are diligent in requesting citations for entries of golf courses that aren't provincial association members, I would hope bogus entries would be nil. Hwy43 (talk) 07:19, 15 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep OR Convert to category for maintenance purposes. Stuartyeates (talk) 07:52, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:33, 12 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep, this is nothing more than an index of articles subdivided in the most obvious way. As long as we have articles on notable golf courses, listing them by the country of location is rather beyond question.  This is far from the first time that WP:NOTDIR has been wrongly invoked to delete a completely standard list, and here its invocation is nothing more than a WP:VAGUEWAVE with WP:OTHERSTUFFDOESNTEXIST thrown in (also wrongly: see Category:Nightclubs in London, List of coffeehouse chains).  NOTDIR only has relevance here regarding the kind of content this list should have: this list should not function as a business directory giving contact info, hours, rates, etc., and normally we don't want lists to be indiscriminate by including every one of the list's subject that exists regardless of whether it's notable.  I could see an argument that we do want golf course lists to be comprehensive, however, because they occupy quite a bit more real estate than your typical business and there are necessarily far fewer of them per locality...but that's a matter for talk page discussion.  postdlf (talk) 18:53, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep. Passes WP:NOTDIRECTORY. There seems to be a lot of these articles floating around. Why aren't they categories? I'd say convert to a category if need be. JguyTalkDone 20:55, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
 * See WP:CLN. postdlf (talk) 21:08, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep: Mostly all blue links. Fine list. SL93 (talk) 21:24, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep and possibly split into provincial list articles in the future as lists by provinces become comprehensive and near complete. Hwy43 (talk) 07:19, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep golf courses are more sizable, rare, and discriminate than nightclubs. Many golf courses are notable, and we can restrict this list to notable entries if necessary. Some nightclubs are notable, and in some regions I'm sure a list of notable nightclubs may make a lot of sense too. Dzlife (talk) 13:38, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep with a strict restriction to notable entries and this is encyclopaedic. As previously noted, this list is not in violation of WP:NOTDIR. ŞůṜīΣĻ ¹98¹ Speak 15:22, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep no policy-based reason for deletion articulated. Jclemens (talk) 00:11, 18 September 2011 (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.