Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of largest dams


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The result was   keep.  Singu larity  03:41, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

List of largest dams

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This a horribly incomplete list only lising three dams as the "largest" dams. However, the article fails to mention the definition of largest: it could be the size of the actual dam, the amount of water it holds, or even the area it occupies. The list has also been tagged with a factual accuracy tag. There already is a List of world's tallest dams which could be a possible consensus to merge the two lists. Tavix (talk) 23:48, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Note Since the nomination, the list has grown significantly. Tavix (talk) 22:05, 28 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep— This can be salvaged. All it needs is some expansion and reliable sources and it could become a legitimate article. -- Mizu onna sango15 / 水 女 珊瑚15  00:18, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep nominator did not examine the article. User:78.149.157.155 on May 10th made a bad edit with an unclosed ref tag that made the table invisible beyond the third entry. If the nominator had examined the page contents then the other entries would have been apparent. 70.55.84.230 (talk) 05:34, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep, formatting fix shows a decent list, although the talk page dispute points to the need for lists of the largest man-made lakes or annotation of List of lakes by area and List of lakes by volume. Fix any factual problems, of course. --Dhartung | Talk 07:05, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep, and consider a possible merger with List of world's tallest dams, and using those dynamic tables, which can be sorted. Danski14(talk) 19:25, 31 May 2008 (UTC)


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