Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of housing cooperatives in Canada (4th nomination)


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The result was delete. -- RoySmith (talk) 01:39, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

List of housing cooperatives in Canada
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This was a bit of a messy situation last year, that ended up in a very muddled lack of consensus, but it's been over six months since the last discussion so it's probably safe to take another swing at it. The first two discussions were perhaps a bit premature in hindsight, because they were initiated while some of the concurrent AFD discussions on the other five housing cooperatives that used to be in this list were still open, so they foundered on the question of just how many cooperatives needed to have articles to justify a list of them while illogically ignoring the fact that all but one of the articles were irreversibly strapped onto a speeding train into the garbage can — however, all of the ones that got nominated for deletion did finally get deleted, turning this into a list of just one thing. The third discussion took place after the list had been pruned to a singularity, conversely, but then the only editor who was actually still arguing for a keep anymore started trying to convert the list into a comprehensive directory of every single housing cooperative that exists in Canada, regardless of whether it has a Wikipedia article to link to or not, and referencing each entry only to its own self-published website rather than to any reliably sourced evidence of their notability — so the nominator of the third discussion simply withdrew their nomination entirely, even though the balance was still tilting 2-1 toward deletion. However, talk page consensus came down unanimously against turning the page into an indiscriminate directory list of all housing cooperatives, and instead solidly supported applying the "only cooperatives that have Wikipedia articles to link to" restriction per WP:CSC #1 — thus turning it right back into a list of just one thing again. So it's a list that simply isn't serving a purpose anymore, because a list of one thing isn't a useful list. Bearcat (talk) 23:52, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 23:52, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 03:21, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 03:22, 24 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom, now that it's down to a lone entry. Clarityfiend (talk) 09:39, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete as a single-item list, or, in some previous incarnations, per WP:NOTDIR.--Pontificalibus 09:49, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. Single entry list, no longer serves any purpose. Ajf773 (talk) 22:45, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. Per norm. Honestly, i dont think this is really important enough to be here. PlotHelpful (talk) 23:01, 29 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete., The title says list but there is no list, Alex-h (talk) 23:11, 30 January 2019 (UTC)


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