Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of tallest buildings in Guiyang

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The result was keep‎. I see a consensus to Keep this article. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:04, 13 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

List of tallest buildings in Guiyang

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Per extensive recent consensus on these types of lists. Minimal navigational purpose given that very few of these buildings have articles and the majority are unlikely to have sufficient coverage for articles. Additionally, the topic of tall buildings in Guiyang as a whole has no significant coverage that I could find. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 02:13, 6 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Architecture, Lists, and China. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 02:13, 6 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Guiyang is a provincial capital and a city of about 6 million people. I'm not sure what the usual criteria are for these kinds of lists but I would expect most of the city's 10 or 20 tallest buildings to each have enough RS coverage to merit their own articles. It's also not hard to find Chinese-language coverage of the general topic of tall skyscrapers in Guiyang: [1][2][3] —Mx. Granger (talk · contribs) 13:47, 6 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep There is lots of precedent for this kind of article, and there are plenty of articles like this with most of the listed buildings not having articles, even in western countries. For example List of tallest buildings in Yellowknife, even though Yellowknife has a population of only 20,000. And Guiyang isn't some small city of 100,000 either. It has a population of 6 million and is a provincial capital, and a simple google in Chinese found many articles. [4][5][6][7][8]Mucube (talk • contribs) 22:15, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Question: Is there a link to where the extensive recent consensus can be read? Or is it just a general pattern of similar articles being deleted? Thebiguglyalien (talk) 16:38, 9 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I think it's the latter, as similar recent AfDs like Columbia, MO, Durham, NA, Little Rock, Lansing and Szczecin all ended in delete. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 03:28, 10 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Those are all pretty small cities – less than a tenth of the size of Guiyang by population. Based on the deletion discussions it seems they don't have particularly tall skyscrapers and their tallest buildings are not often discussed as a group by reliable sources. So Guiyang is not really comparable. —Mx. Granger (talk · contribs) 14:16, 10 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per User:Mucube and WP:NLIST, and per my comments above. —Mx. Granger (talk · contribs) 14:18, 10 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep From Wikipedia:Notability#Stand-alone lists:
One accepted reason why a list topic is considered notable is if it has been discussed as a group or set by independent reliable sources, per the above guidelines; notable list topics are appropriate for a stand-alone list. The entirety of the list does not need to be documented in sources for notability, only that the grouping or set in general has been.
The sources from Guizhou Radio TV Station [zh] and The Paper found by Mucube (talk · contribs) and Mx. Granger (talk · contribs) show that the topic has been "discussed as a group or set by independent reliable sources" so passes the notability guideline.
Cunard (talk) 09:14, 11 May 2023 (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.