Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of cinemas in Singapore

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The result was keep. Nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure) Ajf773 (talk) 17:47, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

List of cinemas in Singapore

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Fails WP:NOTDIRECTORY and nothing special about any of the list entries to make this list pass WP:LISTN — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ajf773 (talk • contribs)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Ajf773 (talk) 09:03, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Singapore-related deletion discussions. Ajf773 (talk) 09:03, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - as the user, Razerby96, looks after the articles (and trimmed down to necessary and sourced content), for major lifestyle areas in Singapore since 13 September 2014 (Shopping malls need to have "Anchor tenants" as general norms). The previous editor, Timothyhouse1 (now banned since November 2016) was well known to be adding unsourced content. Timothy H2 (talk) 13:46, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as standard navigational list of articles in standard grouping by country per WP:LISTPURP, complementary to Category:Cinemas in Singapore per WP:CLN. LISTN therefore has no contribution to the analysis here. postdlf (talk) 16:10, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

So which entries on the list are in the category? And vice versa? Ajf773 (talk) 17:36, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

All of the category entries should be on the list. Any notable entries on the list should also be in the category. But whether the list currently achieves that is not relevant to AFD, as I'm sure you'll explain below. postdlf (talk) 17:39, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep WP:NOTDIRECTORY deals with non encyclopedic and simple listing without context or notability on their own, like all redlinks but not standard index like "List of something in a country" provided the list is not filled with unsourced or irrelevant items. This list is allowed and complements categories as already shown above per WP:CLN guideline –Ammarpad (talk) 16:58, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Which is basically what the list is now. Ajf773 (talk) 17:34, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This is AFD. Please explain the significance of "now", in the context of WP:BEFORE, WP:ATD, and WP:PRESERVE. postdlf (talk) 17:37, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

No objections to having a list but not like this one. In my opinion this is a WP:TNT job. Ajf773 (talk) 17:39, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You didn't answer my question. And we've now accumulated more edits in this discussion than it would have taken to clear the list and replace it with just the bare entries in the category, if that's the appropriate outcome, which is part of why those policies exist. Don't bring nominations again that violate them. postdlf (talk) 17:42, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'll do it myself then. Ajf773 (talk) 17:47, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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