Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of algal culture collections

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The result was no consensus. MBisanz ^talk 03:19, 23 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

List of algal culture collections[edit]

Wikipedia is not an external link farm. seresin ( ¡? ) 06:13, 18 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep but reformat. Valid thing to have a list of. Links can be thought of as references. JulesH (talk) 11:04, 18 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, while I agree that in theory these links could be useful to create an article on algal culture collections, this is a pure external-link directory and really isn't what Wikipedia is here for: if this were a new article I'd say give it a chance to be expanded into a sourced encyclopedia article, but it's been here for nearly three years and remains as a simple web-directory page. WP:NOTLINK is pretty clear here; lists are useful as a means of navigating and summarising Wikipedia articles on a topic, but it's really not the function of an encyclopedia to provide directories of all the web sites on a topic. ~ mazca ^t|c 12:45, 18 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Formatting should be modified so the links are made into refs. But otherwise it seems okay. ChildofMidnight (talk) 18:24, 18 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- That would only make it into a directory, which also violates policy. seresin ( ¡? ) 04:11, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete WP:NOTLINK is directly on point. THF (talk) 18:46, 18 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete linkfarm if these places had articles, perhaps... but algal culture collections isn't necessarily a notable feature of these places. They probably also have urinals, and can be included in the List of urinal locations that may eventually get written. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 06:17, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, algal culture collection are not urinals. As others have said, the list just needs formatting. Brownsnout spookfish (talk) 22:29, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I listed this discussion at the relevant (I think) project page and on the Algaculture (or something like that) page so the experts can weigh in. Speaking of algaculture, it's about time to clean the shower... ChildofMidnight (talk) 06:42, 21 January 2009 (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.