Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Dillard's locations

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 delete. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 02:52, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of Dillard's locations

This is a pretty clear indiscriminate collection of information. As pointed out at Talk:Dillard's, it contains some info that you couldn't find using the company's store locator function on their website, but none of that info (square footage, opening dates, prior occupants of Dillard's sites) seems particularly noteworthy. I feel kind of bad nominating this, as it clearly took some time to create, but it all seems rather pointless to me. I'll withdraw if someone can give me a convincing reason to.--Kchase02 T 12:22, 9 July 2006 (UTC) Nomination withdrawn Well, I convinced myself. In the interests of not biting anyone, no matter how new or how old, I've decided to withdraw. I think this clearly violates WP:NOT, but so many people have worked on it for so long, that I'll let it be. I don't fault anyone who votes to delete or keep this, but I hope that it will just sit for four days and an admin closes it no consensus. I found sources for four stores, but I'm not going to spend days on Lexis looking up all of them. This isn't my hobby.--Kchase02 T 03:32, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

• Delete as it fails WP:V. Please tell the list creator about this AfD and give him a chance to userfy or (preferably) save on his own computer the information in this. Captainktainer * Talk 12:34, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

• Good idea. It's done.--Kchase02 T 12:40, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

• Disagree wholeheartedly. The article has information not readily available elsewhere. It's definitely worthy of remaining in a separate article as recently created. Has anyone wondered when a store opened or when it was closed, how many stores closed in 1990 and opened in 2002? What's your hobby? Is your hobby worthy of being deleted because, even though it may be informational, only a minority of users share your hobby? Several other articles have similar information. Will we delete the locations from other department store pages such as Macy's, Lord & Taylor, Saks, Nordstrom, Foley's, Marshall Field's, The Bon Marche, Nieman Marcus, etc.? What about the airline pages where list of destinations are included? How about airport pages that list which airlines and destinations they serve? Should a department store chain close, then where would this information be found for future generations if this article is deleted? There is so much more information from the article that can also be found on the company's website, should it be deleted too? If we do this for all articles, no article would be more than a few paragraphs. Isn't Wikipedia supposed to be a comprehensive encyclopedia? Clipper471 23:01, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

• I normally wouldn't respond, but this list is the result of so much work that I want to be sure of things. To be frank, I never have wondered these things about any store. True enough that general information like that found in Wal-Mart_statistics is useful, but the same stats on every store? Inclusion of other information for other stores is not an indication that inclusion here is valid. Anyone can edit wikipedia. Jimbo does say WP is supposed to be 'the sum of all human knowledge' (bad paraphrase), but this is stretching it. Finally, and I don't mean any offense by asking this: how is this a hobby? The US Supreme Court is boring to many people, so I could just be missing something here.--Kchase02 T 03:21, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Suggest for deletion, but then go and add your own references? Clipper471 04:05, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

• Keep It's a big list with a lot of locations listed --Caldorwards4 19:05, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

 AFD relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
 Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks, TigerShark 15:59, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

• Move to Wikipedia:WikiProject_Shopping...no, wait, that's not right. Delete as needless list. Their website should be reference enough for this stuff, and if not, that's not our responsibility. WP:NOT the Yellow Pages. -- nae'blis _(talk) 17:26, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete unnecessary list; fails WP:NOT hoopydink^{Conas tá tú?} 17:49, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete in spite of the withdrawn nomination. As per Nae'blis, Wikipedia is not the Yellow Pages, nor an indiscriminate collection of information. If other, similar articles exist, I'd happily nominate them for deletion as well. Zetawoof^(ζ) 20:01, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information, point #7, "Wikipedia is not the Yellow Pages." Dpbsmith (talk) 21:08, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Dpbsmith. Mallcruft? --Kinu ^t/_c 23:14, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per DPB Smith. Wikipedia is not the Yellow Pages. -- GWO

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