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The result was delete‎. If an editor wanted to work on an article on this subject, I'm willing to restore it to Draft space but it would have to be submitted to WP:AFC rather than moved back to Draft space. You can contact me or ask at WP:REFUND Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:20, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Amazon data centers

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Pro forma nomination as WP:DRAFTIFY process was not deemed appropriate. @Toddy1: recommended a move to draft, which I agreed with and implemented. While the article exceeded the 90 days limit, I thought the talk page gave sufficient consensus at "another suitable venue", which @Hey man im josh: objected with. IgelRM (talk) 00:16, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. IgelRM (talk) 00:16, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have trouble understanding the last couple sentences. My attention isn't on this anymore. I believe even a stub article is good to keep, but if you feel this is best for Wikipedia I won't oppose it. DenverCoder19 (talk) 00:21, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Just to make it very explicit, this is the article's creator. HyperAccelerated (talk) 00:25, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@DenverCoder19: The problem is still the same when we first talked, the notability and sourcing is not enough for an article (also a stub). A DRAFTIFY, which we tried, would have allowed you or anyone to continue to work on it to be up to article standard. IgelRM (talk) 01:13, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Computing, Lists, and Virginia. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 00:27, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: I can't articulate any reason why this article should exist. Some of this information could be added to Amazon Web Services, but having a separate article that literally just lists their data centers isn't necessary. HyperAccelerated (talk) 00:27, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(1st choice) Draftify (2nd choice) Delete. The article is not ready for mainspace. Nobody is improving it - the only content was added on 25 August 2023‎ in the edit that created the article. If the aim of the article is to write about the topic of Amazon data centres, it would be possible to create such an article using reliable sources (see talk page), but the topic overlaps that covered by Amazon Web Services, so it is not clear whether an Amazon data centres article is needed. The article seems to indicate that it was intended to list the locations of Amazon's various data centres by continent; that sounds like the wrong idea (because of WP:OR, unreliable sources, and notability). These issues could be sorted out in draft.-- Toddy1 (talk) 00:32, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Do you have specific examples of non-routine coverage of the subject as a whole (i.e. not articles about individual data center construction / opening)? I couldn't find any. PaulT2022 (talk) 15:21, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
As mentioned on the article talk page, there is coverage of Amazon data centres in The Economist and the Financial Times. None of the articles are about specific data centres - I skim-read a lot of the articles found by a search for "Amazon data centres" on the The Economist website; there is a lot of content that could go into the article on AWS, and a lot that could go into data centre businesses in general. If the article on AWS did not exist, you could build an article on Amazon data centres based on that content. But as it does exist, it is arguable that it would be better to improve that article than to build a standalone Amazon data centres article. (Hint in your searches try spelling the word "res" not "ers".)-- Toddy1 (talk) 17:40, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Amazon Web Services: This is a plausible redirect target, and could possibly be merged into it as well. DrowssapSMM 14:33, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete – WP:DIRECTORY makes clear that offices [or] store locations are not valid topics for a list. Any other details about data centers can go to the main AWS article. RunningTiger123 (talk) 02:08, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: besides WP:DIRECTORY, I don't believe there's a sufficient WP:SECONDARY coverage of the subject in independent sources. PaulT2022 (talk) 15:17, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete The topic seems notable, but unless meaningful content is added, this article is in no shape to be in the mainspace. InfiniteNexus (talk) 22:48, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Unless information can be found that provides controversy or additional interest to what is essentially a list of locations (for example, collective unionization, brownfield development of notable sites, a company culture of hiding misconduct across data centers, or the use of historic buildings), I do not think this topic warrants a page. Trainsskyscrapers (talk) 17:43, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Cannot think of it as anything else than a directory. Azuredivay (talk) 18:06, 13 March 2024 (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.