Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Read codes

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 DELETE. Mo0[talk] 06:03, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List of Read codes

This article contains a subset of the British medical coding system. It is a subset, but it still includes over 3,000 entries and is 152,155 bytes long. Per WP:ISNOT this seems to me to be a directory. It also appears to be little more than a reformetted mirror of http://www.wolfbane.com/icd/read3h.htm, a cited source. Just zis Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] AfD? 18:21, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete a directory. Also a subset with no defined criteria. Unmaintainable. Dlyons493 Talk 19:00, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as not encyclopedic (same argument I made when List of SWIFT codes was up for AfD) ++Lar: t/c 20:06, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep. This is not an internet directory of buissiness directory as mentioned in WP:NOT. Read codes gets 64 000 hits on google. Maybe it is useful to someone? —Ruud 21:28, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment An article on what Read Codes are, and why they are important, and how they get determined, how long they've been around, how many there are, etc. might well be encyclopedic (the 64K hits on the term suggests that they indeed are an important concept). BUT, an incomplete list, non authoritative, with an authoritative source elsewhere, and with no hope of being kept current without herculean effort, is not. I think you may not be thinking about what WP:NOT means with respect to lists of things in broad enough terms. ++Lar: t/c 22:12, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as unencyclopedic. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Stifle 16:57, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Pavel Vozenilek 21:55, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. per nom Incognito 00:57, 19 January 2006 (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.