Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Index of Navassa Island-related articles

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 keep. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 22:58, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Index of Navassa Island-related articles[edit]

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Navassa Island, a tiny uninhabited island, does not strike me as a subject for which an alphabetical list of topics is useful. Several of the entries have nothing to do with Navassa (e.g., Great Seal of the United States of America) and the rest are (or ought to be) found in the main article. This list, therefore, serves no useful purpose. Sandstein 13:56, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Remove all WP:OVERLINK links, WP:OC#SMALL categories and other irrelevant content, and you'll be left with a virtually empty page with no possibility for expansion. — Rankiri (talk) 15:08, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Caribbean-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:58, 20 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:58, 20 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I support keeping this article. A source for consolidating an overview of islands belonging to countries or territories... this aritcle helped me. Wiki is an excellant source of dozens of "index of" subjects, places, countries, and territories... see Category:Indexes of articles by country. These "Index" articles help readers and reseachers understand boundaries, relationships, territories and political influences. LanceBarber (talk) 04:43, 20 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That is an argument for keeping this general type of list, but what's at issue here is whether this type of list makes sense for this topic. Surely you are not arguing that we ought to have a list of this type for every article in Wikipedia? That would violate WP:IINFO, as does this list. Sandstein 08:35, 20 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: Navassa Island is a territory occupied by the United States but disputed by Haiti. This territory is of sufficient importance to merit an "Index of" article. I'm not sure how deleting this article would improve Wikipedia. Yours aye, Buaidh (talk) 14:19, 22 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: As much as it pains me to say this: Usefulness is not a reason to keep or delete any article. That said, Navassa Island is Notable, ergo a list of articles related to it is perfectly suitable for WP. This is not an indiscriminate list. Although it can be improved, especially the lead-in, there is nothing here that violates WP:LIST or WP:CLN --Mike Cline (talk) 16:04, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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.