Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of David Jones stores

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The result was Delete. The Placebo Effect (talk) 18:01, 29 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of David Jones stores[edit]

Not sure what use this article has; is a list of David Jones stores even notable? Jmlk 1 7 06:59, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. This falls squarely under Wikipedia is not a directory. Zetawoof_(ζ) 08:05, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Zetawoof. Lists of store locations are outside the realm of encyclopedias (but well within the realm of corporation websites). Sjakkalle (Check!) 08:34, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Zetawoof. Too bad, must have taken the editor some work to collect all of this information (doesn't seem to be on the company's homepage). ~ | twsx | ^talk_cont | 08:52, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletions. -- Bduke (talk) 10:29, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Meets WP:LISTS. Not sure what wikipedia policy it breaches to warrant its deletion. At the very least, it should be merged into the main article on the store. Assize (talk) 11:28, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to David Jones Limited Though this department store chain is apparently notable, this is essentially a list of blue-links about malls and shopping centers , and statistical data about the square meterage that would fail WP:NOTSTAT. By analogy, would we keep a list of the square footage of each Macy's store? Mandsford (talk) 17:57, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong merge per Mandsford. Mandsford makes some good points here and they should be followed instead of just deleting everything. The addition of closed stores in here means that the article is more than just a directory of stores. It could play a better role in the main store article but does not need its own list article. JRG (talk) 05:17, 26 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - It is not a valid list since it doesn't link anywhere useful as there are no wikilinks to stores but just to places in australia that happen to have such a store and it isn't sourced, so basically it is just a directory. The problem with merging (back) is that as often the stand alone list seems to exist to keep the main article free from such data.--Tikiwont (talk) 13:46, 29 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. The coverage of where the David Jones stores are is already sufficient at David Jones Limited, and it's too much work to ask the closing admin to do to merge. Delete per WP:NOT#DIRECTORY. Mango juice^talk 14:55, 29 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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