Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of fish on stamps of Afars and Issas

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The result was delete. Mz7 (talk) 02:33, 22 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

List of fish on stamps of Afars and Issas[edit]

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All original research and list cruft. 💸Money💸emoji💸^💴 12:26, 14 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, I agree with all the above reasonsTheLongTone (talk) 12:46, 14 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Are you propose to delete only this article? I see you mass delete nomination of many articles and link all of those back to here. But this AfD mentions just one article. --Lerdsuwa (talk) 13:25, 14 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Lerdsuwa:Just as you commented this, I finished putting down all of the articles.💸Money💸emoji💸^💴 13:32, 14 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete all. Topical philately is a legitimate subject for an article (and is where our dubious stub at topical stamp collecting should be moved at some point), but we're not a specialist catalog on the subject, and I don't think we're well served by attempting to list any "foo on stamps", much less this sort of extensive breakdown by country-of-issue. Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 14:26, 14 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Animal-related deletion discussions. ^{cinco de}L3X1 ◊distænt write◊ 15:10, 14 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. ^{cinco de}L3X1 ◊distænt write◊ 15:10, 14 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete all my reasoning is as per discussion, no way to verify, no RS given, not guide either [1]. --Quek157 (talk) 15:33, 14 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all. WP:LISTCRUFT and obvious original research. Ajf773 (talk) 18:45, 14 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all Something FISHY (fnar fnar) about dozens of identical, unsourced lists, all failing WP:V and possibly created by the same WP:SPA. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 06:55, 15 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: List of fish on stamps of Thailand is cited to a reliable source, so WP:OR does not apply. Might still be listcruft though. --Paul_012 (talk) 12:55, 15 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The ability to source and verify these sorts of lists isn't really the problem, though. Topical philately generates plenty of supporting material. The problem is that Wikipedia is no more a topical stamp catalog than it is a stamp catalog in general. By means of example, the American Topical Association publishes checklists of stamps by topic. There are currently approximately 1200 different topics, with several hundred stamps each on average. Their checklist for fish on stamps has a little bit shy of 10,000 entries. This stuff is verifiable, and factual, and to some people, even useful, but policy still supports deletion. Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 15:25, 15 May 2018 (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.