Wikipedia talk:List of articles with C programs

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A list of articles seems decidedly non-encyclopaedic to me. I can understand its use, but I just don't feel it belongs here. Sarge Baldy 01:46, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia has many many lists, is there something particular wrong with this one? If not, then keep. Posiduck 01:52, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Yes, there is. Most lists contain items that are grouped together because their topics are similarly related. This list groups articles together by which ones have a type of example in them. This is the equivalent of a "List of Ram-Bot City Stubs" or "List of Articles With the Periodic Table". Its purpose isn't encyclopaedic because it refers to the content of the articles themselves rather than the topic of those articles. Sarge Baldy 02:02, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia has lots of lists, and this one doesn't seem to be a random unseless one. Keep.
 * Vote by Sparky the Seventh Chaos Sarge Baldy 02:04, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)
 * Move to Wikipedia namespace as has been done with other such lists. - SimonP 03:33, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)
 * It's not encyclopedic, but in the Wikipedia namespace, as SimonP suggests, it would be appropriate. Concur with SimonP, Move to Wikipedia namespace. --Improv 03:51, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Move to List of articles with C programs. &bull; Benc &bull; 03:55, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Agree with proposed move &mdash; siro  &chi;  o  08:11, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, or move it out of the main namespace. I'm not convinced it's necessary anywhere, but I wouldn't object to it elsewhere. Category:Algorithms is useful and has a lot more articles in it (although they don't all have code); I can't imagine a circumstance when this particular list would be useful. ~leif 08:18, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Perhaps make it category, but delete as an article. Wikipedia has lots of lists, and this one does seem to be a random useless one. I don't think WIkipedia is, or is intended to be, or is likely to become, a useful source of code snippets or ready-to-use C code. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 00:10, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is what "Categories" is all about. Denni &#9775; 01:04, 2004 Oct 15 (UTC)
 * Other. This list was probably written before catagories existed. Use the list to create a new catagory and populate it, then toss the list.Kim Bruning 12:43, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Replace with category and delete. -- Cyrius|&#9998; 20:31, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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