Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of guitar manufacturers


 * 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   no consensus. Wizardman 00:16, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

List of guitar manufacturers

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An unmanaged list. It has become a magnet for advertising and is littered with embedded spam links to manufacturers who do not pass WP:CORP and would never have a Wikipedia article of their own. Libs (talk) 13:30, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep nomination just indicates cleanup problems. We don't delete substandard articles as punishments, we fix them. --Rividian (talk) 18:54, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:NOEFFORT. Colonel Warden (talk) 15:29, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Achieves no useful purpose that could not be performed by a category, e.g. Category:Guitar manufacturing companies.  Having a list of non-notable guitar manufacturers is pointless.  If a manufacturer is notable, there should be an article about them.  JulesH (talk) 21:35, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I just got rid of those spam links. If that solves the problem, keep; else delete. Alexius08 is welcome to talk about his contributions. 01:44, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete list adds nothing that a category doesn't already cover. Fair Deal (talk) 12:25, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep, useful per WP:LIST. I boldly culled the list of all entries that didn't have a wikilink or didn't lead me to a guitar manufacturer. I know very little of guitars and am sure to have removed legitimate guitar manufacturers. I think they should only be readded though if they have an indication of notability, either through a wikilinked article or a footnote leading to a strong assertion of notability (in which case they can even also have a link to the company website). If there is no inclusion standard though lists like these always deteriorate into a collection of trivial or spammy entries. -- Amalthea Talk 17:05, 29 August 2008 (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.