Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of fictional battles

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 of the debate was keep moink 00:56, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of fictional battles

Redundant with Category:Fictional battles, extremely incomplete, links to many things that don't (and shouldn't!) have articles. —Kirill Lokshin 19:34, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

• Keep; it presents formatting and sorting not possible in a category. It may be incomplete but it can be expanded; as for links, I don't feel competent to judge which fictional battles do or don't merit articles. I might support removal of redlinked or unlinked entries, but not deletion. Melchoir 20:31, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Why are lists always getting AfD'd for being incomplete? It's not a valid reason to delete a list, just as being a stub is not, in and of itself, reason enough to delete an article. As Melchoir said, this list does things with formatting that a category can't. --djrobgordon 21:01, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
  • A misunderstanding. An incomplete list than can reasonably be completed is not a problem (it'll get finished at some point). An incomplete list that cannot possibly be completed may be suffering from a hopelessly broad scope (e.g. List of villains - which is a blue link for reasons I cannot fathom - or List of places), a problem which can sometimes only reasonably be dealt with by deletion. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 04:58, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
    • In this case, the category and its children have roughly 200 articles, half of which are from Star Wars and might require a list of their own. Either way, I think it's a manageable quantity. Melchoir 05:33, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
      • On the other hand, if the list is not limited to battles that already have articles, it will become unmaintainable rather quickly; the number of battles invented for various fictional works outnumbers the number of real historical ones (which already compose some five very long lists). —Kirill Lokshin 05:46, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
        • Certainly it could bloat to the point where it is unmaintainable, if managed irresponsibly. I'll go trim it a bit. Melchoir 05:55, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Nicely organised list which should be expanded. Scranchuse 21:17, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep I see no reason to delete the list... --Splette Talk 23:08, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, it's a useful and nicely done list. Rob T Firefly 02:39, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, an important and well done list that relates to other important topics. --Eldarone 06:31, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Nothing here that can't be accomplished with categories and subcategories.
• Weak Keep: Unsure if it adds anything to category, but I'll give it benefit of the doubt. Peter Grey 13:29, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep, I was looking for Battle of Cowshed everywhere; could only find it here. Mysmartmouth 19:55, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, per above comments. The Wookieepedian 03:44, 8 March 2006 (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.