Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Timeline of heads of government in Australia


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  09:50, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

Timeline of heads of government in Australia

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This page is unruly and would be hard for normal people to read contravening WP:MANUAL, plus it makes for severe difficulty in trying to add on more elected governments without compromising readability, as this article is already served by other such lists, like List of Prime Ministers of Australia, Premier of Victoria etc. so it can be argued that having separate articles would increase readability of the subject in general, rather than having a cluster of unreadable information. - &#124;&#124; RuleTheWiki  &#124;&#124; (talk) 14:46, 14 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete without prejudice to recreation. This article has been a bit of an odd-one-out for years, because the table is a pain to update and so it frequently winds up out of date for months or years after a change, and it only goes back to 2000. (It still hasn't been updated for the defeat of Adam Giles' government in August.) That said, the list's role is absolutely not served by other lists - for example, if I want to know which leaders were in office in 1971, I'd otherwise have to go to seven different articles; however, it has so many problems as is that it's been suggested to delete it before. So, delete but leave the option open of recreating it if someone wants to create a format for it that's not a mess. The Drover&#39;s Wife (talk) 15:15, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. I'm not insensitive to the usefulness argument here, but that's not strongly weighted in policy. That said, we simply don't do this sort of thing for any other countries--I checked for an equivalent timeline for Canada, which I imagined to be the closest analogue. But there isn't one (and probably shouldn't be). I shudder to imagine what an incomprehensible trainwreck would result from trying to chart US governors in this manner! Ultimately, Wikipedia doesn't attempt to combine and display its information in all configurations that are potentially useful, and this configuration is particularly ill-suited to the project. And that's before even contemplating accessibility or maintenance concerns. Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 17:18, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
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