Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of wind turbine manufacturers

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The result was keep. Tone 22:33, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

List of wind turbine manufacturers

Once again this page has become a spam magnet. Many redlinks and non-notable entries. Not encyclopedic. "Wikipedia is not a directory of everything that exists or has existed", see WP:NOTDIR. Notable content already covered in several other articles, eg., Renewable energy commercialization#Wind power companies. Johnfos (talk) 02:02, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I think it falls closer to WP:LIST, which would allow this type of article to be acceptable. Redlinks can be filled in and spam can be removed. Many of the entries on the list have articles on Wikipedia. Pastor Theo (talk) 02:41, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep An organized list, so WP:NOTDIR does not apply; it meets WP:LIST'S criteria (top ten and subprovider lists provide information, article is useful for navigation, development). The tendency of some users to add spam is not a valid reason for deletion of the entire list. As a list, it's not a content fork of articles that also discuss the topic. Baileypalblue (talk) 03:15, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Wikipedia has many lists of the form: List of * manufacturers, for example List of computer hardware manufacturers, List of aircraft manufacturers, List of motorcycle manufacturers, etc. All are prone to spam and red links in their early stages of development. Lists are difficult to make perfect on the first attempt, as few individual users would have all the necessary information to fill out articles on every vendor in an industry. I lean toward inclusionism, but I'm only an inclusionist about whatever is fixable, and this list is clearly fixable. Wikipedia has hundreds of articles about wind farms or other mentions of wind turbines (in articles about geographic locations, etc.), and many of these mention (or should mention) the wind turbine vendors, so there is no doubt we need to create articles for these red links. I've been sorting (categorizing) wind-power-related photos on Commons (see commons:User:Teratornis#Categories), and one of the useful categorizations is by wind turbine manufacturer (commons:Category:Vestas Wind Systems, commons:Category:REpower, commons:Category:Suzlon Energy, etc.). It takes a lot of work and a lot of Wikipedians to build all this structure, but we'll get there eventually. --Teratornis (talk) 04:55, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:40, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:41, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This list needs much improvement, but it is an encyclopedic list article in its early stages. A list of wind turbine manufacturers is one element in providing an understanding of the technology and the industry, and I imagine that the list is very useful for article contributors. As for future improvement, I'd want to see the main list converted to a sortable table form, including company name, country, dates, and any predecessor or successor companies (needed because this is an industry susceptible to transition through merger and acquisitions). --Orlady (talk) 17:32, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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