Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of places in Idaho


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The result was speedy keep per the nomination being withdrawn by the nominator. -Royalguard11 (Talk·Desk) 05:02, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

List of places in Idaho
This information is better served by an existing category.Dlohcierekim 01:08, 20 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Speedy Keep Nomination withdrawn. Thanks everyone. Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim   16:54, 20 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Strong keep. Lists are able to include redlinks, which can help in development in that they give an indication on what articles have or have not been written. Also, hundreds of similar articles currently exist under Category:Lists of places.--TBC TaLk?!? 01:14, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep per TBC. Elf | Talk 01:34, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep Notable list of notable places. Kirjtc2 02:51, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep: lists are not redundant with cats, even if they describe the same thing. - CheNuevara 02:52, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. At first I was going to post a delete comment out of moral support because I agree with the nominator's principle but thought it would unsuccessful because this would be one of many similar articles. To my surprise, I soon found there isn't a similar "article" for a lot of other U.S. states. That's probably a good thing. This is a category in article's clothing. The entire purpose of categories seems to be defeated by lists like this. If one is curious if there's an article required on a place, that's what looking in the category listing (or "search") can acheive. Agent 86 03:27, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment. How is this article any different from the articles in categories such as Category:Lists of places in the United States, other than that the other lists have tables with borders? Also (as quoted from WP:LIST), articles like these are "useful for Wikipedia development purposes... [as they] give an indication of the state of the 'pedia, the articles that have been written, and the articles that have yet to be written"--TBC TaLk?!? 04:07, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep per above. Why is the nom picking solely on Idaho? Pick on some place useless to humanity, like Delaware. &mdash;ExplorerCDT 04:11, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep and I am tempted to slap a on ExplorerCDT :-), picking on any place is bad. This list doesn't scream listcruft like some. Michael Billington (talk • contribs) 08:03, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep per TBC. &mdash;Wrathchild (talk) 12:50, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete This could be a category. I do not see the point of such a list.Edison 17:23, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. What's the point of a list of cities? This should be a category, there is no information about the cities, just a list of them. Laur  ə  n whisper 18:59, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Speedy Keep. Lists are not redundant with categories. AndyJones 12:44, 21 September 2006 (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.