Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Texas breweries


 * 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   no consensus. There's a significant enough group of editors here who believe the topic is worthwhile that the possible linkfarming is convincingly a cleanup problem rather than a deletion problem. Renaming is possible, though I'm not sure there's a consensus here for it. Since it's essentially a "how do we organise the content" question, I thus have to give a lot of weight to the headcount. Wily D 06:49, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

Texas breweries

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Seems to be a WP:LINKFARM. Walter Görlitz (talk) 15:42, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
 * delete as nominated and for WP:NOTDIR. Mangoe (talk) 15:53, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Texas-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:36, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Food and drink-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:36, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
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 * Keep and rename to List of breweries in Texas. Compare to List of breweries in Quebec or List of breweries in Berkshire. The presence of many external links doesn't mean this is a link farm; compare to List of universities in Iran, which unanimously survived AfD. Don't think of them as external links; think of them as references that verify the brewery's existence. --BDD (talk) 21:01, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Also List of US breweries. Like most coverage of beer, these articles need some work, but AfD is not for cleanup. --BDD (talk) 21:03, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
 * We could also simply remove the links; see California breweries. (I'm working on standardizing these titles now.) --BDD (talk) 21:16, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I notice, though, that one of the justifications given for the Iranian list was that universities are by default held notable. Are breweries? Mangoe (talk) 21:29, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm sure some of them aren't, but individual breweries can be represented in lists even if they aren't notable enough for their own articles. See WP:NLISTITEM. --BDD (talk) 21:53, 22 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep. Article needs to be cleaned up, and the links need to be removed. The subject of a list can be notable, even if the list items are not.-- xanchester  (t)  00:28, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete Categories serve the same purpose as this; nothing more than a list. OhNo itsJamie Talk 16:05, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep with a name change to List of Texas breweries. Useful source of in-links and an aid to navigation, logical and limited inclusion parameters. Carrite (talk) 17:04, 25 October 2012 (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.