Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shenzhen Stock Exchange/List of listed companies

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The result was no consensus on Shenzhen list, keep Istanbul and Athens lists. I am also standardizing the names, as suggested below by UShick. lifebaka++ 18:39, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Shenzhen Stock Exchange/List of listed companies[edit]

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1. This article fulfills a function already performed by an external website. 2. WP:NOTDIRECTORY USchick (talk) 23:39, 22 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I am also nominating the following related pages because the current list can be found on the stock exchange.

Companies listed on the Istanbul Stock Exchange (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
List of companies listed on the Athens Stock Exchange (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Keep the Istanbul and Athens lists, which are useful, well-defined, and represent the work of many editors. –SJ + 01:55, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Weak delete for the Shenzhen list, which has had few editors and needs a lot of work. While there is no external site that fulfils the intended function (to provide a list of red and blue links for companies on the exchange, itself a measure of notability, to help editors create those articles), the company names need to be expanded. I've left the list on the talk page of the stock exchange article to inspire someone to tackle that expansion in the future it does not need a separate article at the moment. –SJ +
No comment on the Istanbul and Athens lists (yet), but I'd say Delete the Shenzhen list. I'd say more, but Sj pretty much nailed it for that. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 02:10, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Rationale for deletion There's no way of keeping these lists current because companies listed on any stock exchange have to meet ongoing requirements. Only the stock exchanges can verify what companies qualify to be listed at any given time, which makes our lists useless. A similar and much more useful list already exists for each country in question.

List of companies of the People's Republic of China

List of companies of Turkey

List of companies of Greece

USchick (talk) 03:08, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep all. Given that a stock exchange is for public trading of stocks, I don't think this is difficult information to verify, nor does listing status change by the minute. The exchange a company's stock is listed on is obviously a highly significant fact of that company, and we have quite a lot of content on this matter, as evidenced by the large category structure Category:Companies by stock exchange. There are also a lot of lists and categories specific to individual stock exchanges such as Category:Lists of companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange or Category:Companies delisted from the New York Stock Exchange. Unless there is a good reason to treat the Shenzen, Istanbul, or Athens stock exchanges differently, deleting these would only seem to be an instance of systemic bias. The Shenzhen Stock Exchange is purportedly the 14th largest in the world, and it seems unlikely that there are no notable companies trading on it, so I am hopeful that list can be improved (though I suppose there's no harm in redirecting it to the exchange article until that happens). postdlf (talk) 02:49, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for making this point so eloquently. The categories already exist, which is where this information belongs. USchick (talk) 03:49, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Companies listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange

Category:Companies listed on the Athens Stock Exchange

Category:Companies listed on the Istanbul Stock Exchange

That's not a valid deletion rationale; see WP:CLN. Also, how is it that the categories are verifiable but not the lists? postdlf (talk) 05:56, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep all and Rename - The article title does not conform to our manual of style and should be renamed to something like List of companies on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, with the other articles renamed to a similar structure. Companies being listed on a stock exhange is a valid topic for a list. The criteria is clear and unambiguous. The members of the list are limited in scope. A company's listing on a stock exchange is also usually considered of interest in financial news so it something that is notable. -- Whpq (talk) 17:09, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment If the consensus is to keep the articles, I suggest a consistent approach in naming them: Companies listed on the Istanbul Stock Exchange, Companies listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, Companies listed on the Athens Stock Exchange USchick (talk) 21:45, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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