Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of years in politics


 * 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   keep. -- Cirt (talk) 00:17, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

List of years in politics

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This page provides no information whatsoever. Many significant political events occur every year. So this list is nothing but an inexhustible and utterly unnecessary list of all the years ever! It was nominated for deletion in July 2010, but the tag was removed citing "aid to navigation". If someone would want to read about "the year 1981 in politics", they would just type exactly that in WP search or in their browser address bar! They need not come to this list at all! Please think of a senario where such a list would be useful to anyone! Delete per WP:LINKFARM, or more likely WP:NOTSTUPID!! Geeteshgadkari (talk) 14:26, 1 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep - I am the editor who removed the PROD. The page is not meant to merely list years, but to be a navigational aid for articles of the kind $YEAR in politics, where $YEAR is any given year. As such it is a normal navigational aid, of the kind complementary to categories. There is no actual rationale for deletion here apart from "I personally don't need it, so nobody needs it" kind of reasoning, which is obviously not a deletion reason. -- Cycl o pia  talk  14:08, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
 * This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing step 3). It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 11:50, 5 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment. Hrm. This article, really, has no content whatsoever. I want to say that a category would do a better job of aiding navigation, but I see that the category starts in the 900's - so it'd be tricky to find modern-era years without multiple click-throughs. What about a template? Several topics have a template that includes the current article and maybe 5 or 10 on either side of it, sliding as you go through the years. Additional links could jump decades. UltraExactZZ Said~ Did 12:23, 5 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Weak Keep - This is clearly a navigational tool and not a "list" in the way that Wikipedia uses the term. The fact that so few links are blue indicates to me that this is a navigational tool not ready for primetime — but one can see this as a useful "See Also" page placed at the bottom of each and every $YEAR in politics page. Not ready for primetime but quite possibly will be in the future means "Keep," right? —Carrite, Oct. 5, 2010.
 * Userfy - until there's enough blue links to make it a useful navigational tool.--137.122.49.102 (talk) 16:58, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete A clear case where a category is much preferable to a list, and a list has nothing to add. Ray  Talk 18:08, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Probably Delete Good effort to help WP readers, but there are probably better ways to help them find the "Year in politics" page they are looking for.Kitfoxxe (talk) 18:53, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:34, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:35, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Per Cyclopia. Lists of lists articles (e.g. Lists of people) exist for navigational purposes. Jclemens (talk) 04:38, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment - navigational purposes are moot if there is nowhere to go. At the moment, there's only the 2000's and a handful of other years, it'd be at most worth a bottom page navigation box template. In the spirit of WP:WTAF, the better option is some form of incubation rather than keeping it on the mainspace. Hence my "userfy" !vote.--137.122.49.102 (talk) 19:17, 6 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep There are articles for years that have political sections in them. Someone could copy that information over perhaps, or link to the sections in existing articles for each year.  This has potential.   D r e a m Focus  04:43, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Correction. They no longer place information according to what it is about, but spew it altogether so its impossible to navigate through historical events and pop culture.  If you go to the article for [1968], and search for the word "politic" you can find many places where something political happened.  Building side articles for each year is possible.  Many things can be combined perhaps by the decade, with them expanding outward to just one year to cover if there is enough information.  Search for "politic" to find "politics", "political", and "politician".   D r e a m Focus  04:47, 7 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep This is an index page, listing other pages. It's a necessary part of the 19xx in politics  group of articles, a well-established group.   A list does not need to add anything to a category, it's an alternative means, an an equally good one.    DGG ( talk ) 04:15, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
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