Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of market opening times


 * 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 KEEP. The question of merging is an editorial decision that can be dealt with outside this AfD. This close is without prejudice to any future action that may be taken in that regard.  Spinning Spark  23:04, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

List of market opening times

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Per WP:AFDHOW, I am nominating this list for deletion. The list, created in February 2007, in part duplicates a subset of about 50 exchanges from an existing list, for that subset, it add columns on open, lunch, and closed times, none of which is referenced, and all of which could be considered WP:MISCELLANEA. Routine online searches do indicate that refs for these times appear to be available, at least in some cases. Nevertheless, even if the times are notable there is no justification for having a list of open times maintained separately and for only an unspecified subset of the exchanges. 72.244.206.168 (talk) 12:53, 7 March 2013 (UTC) Created page for IP from information at Talk:List of market opening times GB fan 13:24, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Articles for deletion/Log/2013 March 7.  Snotbot   t &bull; c &raquo;  13:58, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:03, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:03, 7 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep/merge The hours of business of these exchanges are quite significant. It might be sensible to merge this information into the main list.  Our editing policy indicates that deletion is not appropriate.  Warden (talk) 14:12, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails WP:NOTDIR. I have to agree with the nominator here. I don't see how a separate directory listing of opening/closing times is at all encyclopedic, even for a set of stock markets. The lack of sourcing doesn't help its cause either. I wouldn't object to a merge with List of stock exchanges if anyone feels like it though. Funny  Pika! 15:06, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Merge Will be fair to merge with List of stock exchanges. Dr meetsingh  Talk  15:18, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep. This is a handy, almanac style table.  For mostly aesthetic and handiness reasons, I suspect that it would be better to keep this data on a separate page rather than bury it in List of stock exchanges, or scatter the data among the several exchanges listed.  - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 17:22, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
 * If this is kept as a separate article then it needs to be renamed to something like List of financial market opening times. When I saw the title I was hoping to be able to check whether it was too late for me to pop out and buy some potatoes. Phil Bridger (talk) 14:50, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep A very handy and informative list, helpfully arranged according to the order the markets open from a trading day starting in New Zealand to its ending in New York. The markets are all significant globally so there is no reason this list is not notable to anyone with a need to understand how the global market works. --Computor (talk) 10:51, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
 * If your position were to prevail, we fail to address the MOS:SAL issue: the list consists of an unspecified subset of stock exchanges; according to the MOS, "Stand-alone lists should begin with a lead section that ... makes direct statements about the criteria by which members of the list were selected" 68.165.77.86 (talk) 06:54, 15 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep although merge is also ok if it can be reasonably done. Also I agree with Phil Bridger about renaming.--Staberinde (talk) 16:05, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Merge with condition A practical solution that addressing the MOS:SAL issue is for the time columns from this list be added as sortable columns to the table in List of stock exchanges which contains the top stock exchanges by market capitalization.  Doing so addresses all the issues in the nomination, and preserves the "handy" information that several editors mention in their KEEP votes.  68.165.77.86 (talk) 06:54, 15 March 2013 (UTC) P.S.  Merge done, see this version of the template. 68.165.77.86 (talk) 07:29, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
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