Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of research institutes


 * 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  d elete. - Mailer Diablo 10:37, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

List of research institutes

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Vaguely defined, rather incomplete and hard to maintain list. Its purpose is better served by the richer categories or more specific lists. Tikiwont 12:42, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - This works better as a category. There are far too many "research institutes" in this world to list them all on one page. --Hnsampat 13:56, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete and use categories per above. Yechiel Man 14:56, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as above. JJL 23:46, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete and use the category Keep and arrange by subject--any objection to my replacing it with a list of research institutes by subject? Eventually it can be divided into smaller articles. DGG 04:21, 1 June 2007 (UTC)23:30, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, in Category:Research_institutes there are already hundreds of entries and some sub-categories by subject (and nation). I would be very difficult to include them into this list where entries have been entered rather casually, not to mention overlaps and hierarchies of subjects. So I would rather contribute myself to sorting articles better into the category scheme and improving it where necessary. --Tikiwont 09:25, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Took a look at that category, and you are right that it is a higher priority. I certainly see no need to list institutes not having WP articles.  DGG 23:30, 1 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletions.  -- Pax:Vobiscum 18:38, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Too wide inclusion criteria, the list would be enormous. There is already a category structure in place that would do the job (I don't always prefer categories to lists, but I think a category works much better in this case). Pax:Vobiscum 18:45, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, potentially huge, sorted in the worst possible way - alphabetically. Pavel Vozenilek 22:00, 1 June 2007 (UTC)


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