Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of important International Organizations with their headquarters, foundation years, heads and purpose


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The result was delete. Closing early per WP:SNOW. Missvain (talk) 18:22, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

List of important International Organizations with their headquarters, foundation years, heads and purpose

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This is an admirable effort, but there is simply no way to set reasonable inclusion/exclusion criteria for "important" organizations. The list could be infinitely long without a clear selection cutoff. This page also duplicates List of intergovernmental organizations, from which it is possible to find the headquarters and formation date of each. This page is likely to suffer rot as currently constituted (e.g., I can find some that already list different numbers of members - Asian Development Bank here lists 67 but on Asian Development Bank there are 68 listed). Because WP:LISTN is not crystal clear I am suggesting a discussion rather than PROD or CSD, so I'm happy to be wrong on this one. 49ersBelongInSanFrancisco (talk) 05:55, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. 49ersBelongInSanFrancisco (talk) 05:55, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 09:04, 18 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete. Agree this is a terrible idea for a list. No inclusion criteria (exactly what defines an 'important' company?), fails WP:LISTN and also WP:NOTDIR. Ajf773 (talk) 09:10, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. The inclusion criteria are unclear. A list of international organizations where countries themselves are members would be appropriate (and already exists to some extent at List of intergovernmental organizations), but this list includes organizations such as FIFA where the members are the national soccer associations, not the governments. Obviously, if the article is kept, the title needs to be shortened. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 14:29, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete, phonebook-like. WP:NOTDIRECTORY. Geschichte (talk) 08:30, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete, a list that have unclear purpose, and unclear inclusion criteria. SunDawn (talk) 09:39, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete - I don't think that this can be turned into something that isn't a case of WP:NOT, I also believe that it's impossible to find clear consensus of what is or isn't 'important' within our community Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 20:21, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unclear inclusion criteria, no additional value, and even the format is unreadable. This looks like someone made a list for the sake of making a list. J I P  &#124; Talk 20:39, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete, when I first saw this article yesterday, I initially thought of it as a possible candidate for rescue and renaming by striking the word "important" out of the title, but after further consideration, I honestly don't think this article is salvageable.--TommyBoy (talk) 23:05, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete It is too hard to determine what important means. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 01:40, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete This is a list with arbitrary inclusions criteria. What makes something an "important interional organization"?John Pack Lambert (talk) 15:26, 20 May 2021 (UTC)


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