Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of managed DNS providers


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The result was Keep--Anthony Bradbury"talk" 19:25, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

List of managed DNS providers

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This is a pure violation of WP:NOTDIRECTORY - this article can have no existence without listing specific companies, and we are not the Yellow Pages. Jytdog (talk) 18:56, 14 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep This seems like a reasonable list-class article, per WP:SAL, with every entry linking to a Wikipedia article. The fact that it is a list of companies does not automatically make this the yellow pages. Per WP:NOTDIRECTORY, there is no contact information like telephone numbers. Nor is it a sales catalog--there are nor prices or service terms. It would be nice if there were a direct parent article for managed DNS, but the mentioned articles on DNS, Failover, Dynamic IP addresses, SMTP Authentication, and GeoDNS are reasonable substitutes in its stead. The article could be improved with a more substantial lead and better referencing, but these are matters of editing, not deletion. --Mark viking (talk) 19:34, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
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 * Keep per Mark viking, but I'd prefer no references on the list page, they can be all added to the wiki-linked pages. Matter of taste, there are too many almost dead lists full of red links, inline external links, or spammy external links disguised as references. –  Be..anyone &#x1F4A9;  23:41, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep It would be nice if there was an article at managed DNS, even better if nominators would learn the difference between managed DNS and DNS before nominating. Andy Dingley (talk) 00:18, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep per : This list has a clear, encyclopedic selection criteria, all of its entries have articles, and WP:NOTDIRECTORY doesn't forbid this type of listing. For examples of similar lists, see List of desktop publishing software or the much more useful Comparison of desktop publishing software.  Rebb  ing   05:51, 15 April 2016 (UTC)


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