Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of municipal authorities in Adams County, Pennsylvania

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete all. As the nominator said, this is a blatant violation of WP:NOTDIRECTORY and none of the keep votes rose to the level of replying to that fact. Shii (tock) 02:49, 17 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

List of municipal authorities in Adams County, Pennsylvania[edit]

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Fails WP:NOTDIRECTORY in a spectacular way. Included entries are mostly red-linked run-of-the-mill agencies with little chance of passing notability guides. Test case Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of municipal authorities in Washington County, Pennsylvania was deleted after AfD procedure. I'll be bundling all of the list-class articles which fit the form "List of municipal authorities in Foo County, Pennsylvania" for similar deletion. BusterD (talk) 16:09, 7 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

As previously stated, I'm bundling the following list of articles for the same reasons given above:

Don't think I missed anyone. BusterD (talk) 16:52, 7 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete all such directory lists per WP:Not a directory. If people need this info they can go to Google to find the primary list. Kitfoxxe (talk) 16:38, 7 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Pennsylvania-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:41, 7 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:41, 7 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom and thanks to the nom for taking the time to do all of them. Niteshift36 (talk) 19:39, 7 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - it's a shame, because someone has obviously gone to a lot of effort to create this lovely directory... but shouldn't have. Stalwart111 23:58, 7 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: I'm not sure all of these have the same level of notability. Some of these may be notable and others not p b p 18:05, 8 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Which specific ones do you think are notable? Niteshift36 (talk) 01:43, 9 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I wasn't sure either, but as nominator, I felt compelled to perform a reasonable WP:BEFORE prior to posting such a large bundled nomination. I'll concede that there are several Pennsylvania municipal authorities which meet standards for inclusion in the pedia. But after actually doing my research, I concluded that these lists of such authorities were virtually identical, as regards NOTDIR. User:Purplebackpack89 might note I didn't choose to include List of municipal authorities in Philadelphia county in this procedure, though that list article might deserve its own AfD procedure to measure consensus per NOTDIR. If that user wishes to make a case for specific examples, I'm interested in reading such argument. BusterD (talk) 02:17, 9 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - Holy crap, what a ton of work for naught. Pretty clearly a failure of NOTDIRECTORY.... Carrite (talk) 00:57, 9 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The List of municipal authorities in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania gives an easy way to learn about the several municipal authorities in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania and surroundings, including the transit authority, the public housing authority, and other notable and important municipal authorities. Please provide notification to the Pittsburgh project. --DThomsen8 (talk) 15:30, 13 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. While I still hold my original position, I'd be willing to withdraw nomination on List of municipal authorities in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. BusterD (talk) 01:01, 16 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I agree with Dthomsen8. This is quite encyclopedic, you able to learn how everything works, and information about each authority. Dream Focus 14:30, 15 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, SarahStierch (talk) 16:08, 15 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

To keep all of these pointless redlink farms because of a single county is absurd. The nom offered to remove one and leave the rest. That's completely reasonable. Niteshift36 (talk) 03:18, 16 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Some of the others have blue links in them. Doesn't matter though, since they have room to expand. Nothing gained by deleting something that might be useful to people one day. They can at least find the name of things in each area, and search from there on their own. Dream Focus 16:38, 16 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Most that have any, have 1-2 actual links compared to an overwhelming majority of redlinks. 1-2 isn't justification for a list. This notion that "someday it could be useful" is a dodge. Today they're not useful and I am willing to bet you have no plans to improve them all. Niteshift36 (talk) 02:46, 17 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete all per WP:NOTDIR. Open and shut textbook case. Dominus Vobisdu (talk) 17:49, 16 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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