Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of places by name


 * 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   delete. Cirt (talk) 12:16, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

List of places by name

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This looks like an useless list ambitious to cover all places listed alphabetically.--GDibyendu (talk) 09:15, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Also, all associated pages like List of places by name: A should be deleted.--GDibyendu (talk) 09:44, 30 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete - Indiscriminant list. Not encyclopedic to give a jumbled list. Should be sorted by country. Exit2DOS2000   •T•C•  12:17, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 13:10, 31 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete Listing things alphabetically is what categories are for. I'm not even sure sorting by country would help, still category territory. - Mgm|(talk) 13:31, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Taking a look at the subpages, this list is so far from complete as to be entirely useless. And, as MGM mentions, there are plenty of more specific categories for this sort of thing (generally of the form "List of X in Y"). Zetawoof(&zeta;) 18:36, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete all. This is an example of the type of indiscriminate list that makes all lists subject to scrutiny on Wikipedia. I feel badly for what is obviously a lot of work, but I'm sorry -- there's no rhyme or reason here, and probably fails about a half-dozen WP:NOTs including "Not an indiscriminate etc etc", "Not a directory" ... 23skidoo (talk) 19:33, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete all - without any coherence to the definition of a place, these lists cannot be anything but unusable. For example, the 'W' list contains Wellington (a city in New Zealand, but not any of the other towns and cities), Wellington Street (a disambiguation list of streets) and West Bengal (a state). Beeswaxcandle (talk) 20:40, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete all - 23Skidoo says it all. This is as indiscriminate as an accumulation of information can get. Reyk  YO!  00:54, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete all LOLWUT? JBsupreme (talk) 06:49, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Nuke all from orbit It's the only way to be sure. How could something like this (1) be considered a good idea, and (2) have stayed hee so long? JuJube (talk) 12:49, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * delete lest someone also start to make a list of names by place.--Paul McDonald (talk) 18:28, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.   -- Raven1977 (talk) 02:01, 4 November 2008 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.