Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Symbols that are both country codes and chemical symbols

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE. Carrp | Talk 18:31, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Symbols that are both country codes and chemical symbols
This is an interesting article which someone has obviously put a lot of work into, but I'm not sure it's really encyclopedic. I would be happy not to delete it if someone could suggest how it could be of some use. Cadr 13:40, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I entirely don't see the point of this. It may be merged as a series of footnotes to country codes or chemical symbols, if someone really wants to do that. But since the two are very unrelated, delete. Radiant! 13:52, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I am the author and I want to keep this in Wikipedia.   &mdash; J I P | Talk 13:56, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * That isn't really a valid reason...--InShaneee 16:49, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I thought so. But it was worth a try anyway.   &mdash; J I P | Talk 17:06, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, it's unusual...but I have trouble seeing how this is potentially useful, or why someone would be looking for this information. How is this more helpful than List of prime numbers that are invalid North American telephone numbers, for example? Delete, unless a use for this list is suggested. --TenOfAllTrades | Talk 14:55, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Concur with TenOfAllTrades on all counts. --InShaneee 15:34, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Trivia.   --BM 16:35, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Another one in the same category as Square root of three ratio geometric sequence timeline. Phils 17:03, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Apologies to JIP who made this, but I can't imagine this info having any use besides mere trivia... and not even the fun/interesting kind of trivia either. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 17:18, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, they really have nothing to do with each other. DaveTheRed 17:20, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Irelevant non-connection. Trivia. Drivel. Average Earthman 17:59, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is utterly unconnected and coincidental; there is no relationship being described.  What is there to say about the fact that "Belgium" and "Beryllium" both are abbreviated as "Be"?  What does that say about either one?  I can't even fathom why this was created.  Postdlf 18:20, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. JIP, I'm sure you put your time and effort on this article. But remember: you always have to think about how useful the article will be for the reader. Zzyzx11 19:00, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. If they were kind of connected, I could see the logic...but I've yet to see a chemical formula which uses country codes... Nick04 19:22, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * This tells us nothing that the articles in Category:Lists of two-letter combinations don't already tell us. And those articles tell us a lot more besides.  (For example: NO tells us that it's a country code, a chemical symbol, a word, a compound, an album ...)  There's no need for a list to duplicate a category that is already populated, even without taking the rather bizarre juxtaposition into account. Delete. Uncle G 21:05, 2005 Mar 1 (UTC)
 * Delete. Useless non-encyclopedic trivia. Binadot 22:41, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I actually found this kind of interesting, but the information is already there in the individual two letter acronym disambiguation pages such as Pa and Ag.  --DropDeadGorgias (talk) 20:46, Mar 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is well-researched trivia but still trivia. Sorry. Sjakkalle 09:15, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Would it be OK for JIP to move this to "User" space? -- Jmabel | Talk 01:43, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes. I'm still new at this so I am not sure how to do it though.   &mdash; J I P | Talk 09:58, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * (If people don't consider the page to be objectionable in user space) all you need to do is use the move function to move it to User:JIP/whatever. Then the deletion will just take out the redirect. -- Jmabel | Talk 17:53, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * Moved. Feel free to delete the original article, its contents are safe within my user space. I think.   &mdash; J I P | Talk 18:07, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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