Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of podcatchers


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The result was keep. Michig (talk) 08:01, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

List of podcatchers

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Wikipedia is not a directory WP:NOTDIR. This is almost entirely a list of external links for items with no independent verification WP:V. Has been tagged with this concern for over 3 years. There's a small number of items that have their own WP pages that would comfortably fit at the bottom of the Podcast article. Marasmusine (talk) 06:37, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment: Well... we can edit out the ones that don't have an article, and I'll do that now and see how many remain afterwards. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   07:01, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment. I've removed the redundant mentions and the ones without articles, leaving us with 15 articles. At this point I'm not sure if this would be best served in the main podcast article, or if there's merit in other alternatives such as creating an article about the specific software called podcatchers that plays podcasts and listing that there, or creating a subcategory for podcatcher software and linking to that on the main article for podcasts. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   07:24, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I was considering this, but almost all those remaining aren't podcatchers per se, they are more generalized software that happen to support podcasts (WinAmp, Feedbooks etc). So we end up with a "List of software that has feature X", which I think is overly specific. Marasmusine (talk) 08:48, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I was worried about that as well- I thought it might just be me, but I didn't exactly see iTunes as a podcatcher per se. Tokyogirl79  (｡◕‿◕｡)   10:24, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
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 * Keep Seems useful enough and distinct enough as a list. The distinction between "podcatcher" and "software with podcast support" seems fairly pedantic and is a distinction without a difference. —Tom Morris (talk) 17:51, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep and merge into Podcast. I added a handful of sources. Best, Sam Sailor Sing 12:00, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep If you google "podcast downloaders" this is the only list that shows up (no 2 in search results} It has obvious merit. A lot of the podcasts mentioned are nowhere in the search results. People would not know they exist without this list. It provides a useful function. Just because a lot of them provide other services doesn't mean there aren't people out there would want them for podcasting only TUXLIE  22:48, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I'd like to see this kept somehow, but we have to have a reason other than "it's useful". Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   04:29, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
 * That this is the only list to show up is a reason not to keep it, since we are supposed to be a tertiary source. Marasmusine (talk) 13:13, 30 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep per Tom Morris. DavidLeighEllis (talk) 00:01, 2 November 2013 (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.