Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Internet forums (2nd nomination)

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The result was Nomination Withdrawn. (non-admin closure) Dusti ^{*Let's talk!*} 19:48, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

List of Internet forums

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In line with WP:NOTDIR, this is basically an indiscriminate list of Internet forums. It is fine as a category but any attempt to rank these is basically WP:OR (in contrast to List of most popular websites which has secondary sources with some sort of ranking measures. Ricky81682 (talk) 03:35, 8 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Websites-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 04:58, 8 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 04:59, 8 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 05:00, 8 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If it's "fine as a category" (and we do have Category:Internet forums), then it can't simultaneously be "indiscriminate" as a list because those are just different formats for the same information. See WP:CLN. It seems like your complaint is not with the list's mere existence but instead with some of the sortable columns of data annotations, and such questions over content are for ordinary editing and discussion to hash out. postdlf (talk) 20:41, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry I wasn't clear. I disagree with the mere existence of the list itself due to the difficulty in obtaining reliable sources and because the topic (of all internet forums) so broad it would be unmanageable. As to the criteria and/or columns and annotations, I agree with you, that's a ordinary content issue. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 07:53, 12 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, it seems to be limited to notable forums, so it's not indiscriminate, and has information that can't be included in a category. Siuenti (talk) 11:22, 12 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Withdrawn. After seeing List of blogs, it seems like it can be done with a change in content. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 00:23, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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