Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Popular castles of Scotland

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The result was delete. Sandstein 11:27, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Popular castles of Scotland[edit]

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Original research and synthesis. The selection, grading and tallying of the 46 websites on which the article is based are made by the article's creator. Bishonen | tålk 14:14, 2 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Bishonen, for complementing me on the amount of work. There is more that needs to be done (more edits and info) that I plan on doing in the next couple of days that I think are essential to the article. I hope that I will be given the opportunity of a few days' time to do that bit of work on it and that any final judgment will be suspended until that time.QuakerIlK (talk) 14:43, 2 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

QuakerIlK, these discussions are normally kept open for 7 days before a determination is made. Bishonen | tålk 15:01, 2 August 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Scotland-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 14:28, 2 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

- Delete The list is OR because it determines how popular castles are based on the average of its position in a number of lists. There are various ways of determining popularity: number of visitors, revenue, positive reviews, etc. Different lists also have different levels of reliability. Editors' judgment is required to develop a master list is OR. TFD (talk) 16:24, 2 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete As explained extensively at OR/N, this list is the editors own project and irremediably original research. It is a lot of work and well-researched but still OR and should be published elsewhere. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 16:43, 2 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. The ranking system is the author's own invention and is therefore clear WP:OR. I could imagine a List of castles in Scotland considered among the best which perhaps included any castle in a reliable source's top ten list, or, more simply List of castles in Scotland considered the best, which only includes castles ranked #1 on some reliable list. There's some precedent for this at List of films considered the best and List of music considered the worst. We could even have a corresponding List of castles in Scotland considered the worst. pburka (talk) 17:39, 2 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as obvious WP:OR. Nor is it assured that the sources being synthesized together are all even reliable themselves. XOR'easter (talk) 18:10, 2 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: not only is it largely OR/SYNTH, but Wikipedia is not a collection of popularity lists and Wikipedia is not a travel guide. — MarkH₂₁^talk 19:14, 2 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Sadly I do not think this a Wikipedia article. As well as being original research and the other issues rightly raised above, I am not convinced lists of popular castles by country are ever going to be terribly encyclopedic. That said, the creator has put a lot of work into this and I would hope they can find an alternate home for their efforts. Dunarc (talk) 22:48, 2 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as OR, with regrets along the lines of Dunarc's for the author's efforts. Worthy content, just not within wikipedia. --Lockley (talk) 19:32, 8 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as OR. Sucks for the author though. As it's a nice piece of work. Hopefully they won't be to discouraged and will recreate it somewhere more appropriate. --Adamant1 (talk) 08:28, 10 August 2020 (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.