Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of uninhabited islands


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The result was  d elete. - Mailer Diablo 14:16, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

List of uninhabited islands

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An unmanageable, unmaintainable and useless list. (1) Neither of the two terms in the title has a clear definition, so there are no clear boundaries to determine what is in and what is out. (2) What possible use is there for the list? (3) It's covered by the category "uninhabited islands" anyway. Snalwibma 11:00, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as nominator, in case it's not already clear! To expand on reason 1 above - is an island "uninhabited" only if it has never been inhabited, or are now-deserted islands included? And what about islands which are inhabited seasonally (e.g. with a holiday home on them)? Is it an "island" only if it's above (or indeed below) a certain size, or are wave-washed rocks that are incapable of supporting human life included? Snalwibma 11:06, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - pointless and impossible article, and of no encyclopedic value whatever. At best it's an index of WP articles about little islands which is already perfectly well handled by the Category:Uninhabited_islands page. andy 13:39, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Potentially unmaintainable list much better handled by the existing category.  Ark yan  &#149; (talk) 15:45, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete The catagory takes good care of this. No objections to any of the nominators provided reasons. Felix 17:03, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Stoic atarian 20:34, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep or delete the category if this is deleted, if there is no reason for a list, there is no reason for a category, especially when "Neither of the two terms in the title has a clear definition". I am assuming "island" doesn't have a clear definition and neither does "uninhabited", so delete the category. They seem very clear to me, and the list looks fine to me and is maintainable, and can be sorted by continent. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 23:36, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete and use the category. Placeholder account 23:41, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete the category way seems a better choice here than a list, particularly with a list that could have literally 1000000s of entries. Having a category does not preclude having a list. But in cases where the list could be potentially huge, the list would have to serve some additional purpose to the category: providing citations for something controversial, perhaps; organizing the material other than will ultimately be done when the cat gets too big (here, geographically no doubt); or providing some added info for comparison (area perhaps here, or an explanation of whether the island was ever inhabited). Unfortunately none of these saving reasons are presented by this list, so it seems duplicative of the cat. Carlossuarez46 16:26, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
 * MergeBefore deleting, someone should go over the list and see if there are any islands that are not in the Category:Uninhabited islands. If nobody does, then the deleting administrator (if there is a decision to delete) may contact me and give me a week or two to do the job before deleting.VK35  21:57, 12 May 2007 (UTC)


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