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 both, then redirect the first to List of basic astronomy topics. Sr13 03:10, 26 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of astronomical topics[edit]

List of astronomical topics (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

List of astronomical topics 2 (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

Extremely unmaintainable (and fairly unmaintained), woefully incomplete and indiscriminate list. For example, there are 359,083 members of the extended Henry Draper catalog alone. We're also up to 160,015 asteroids. Yet, all of these would be eligible to be included given the current inclusion criteria. Not to mention all the other stuff that hasn't been cataloged yet... Had a previous afd back in October 2006, which ended up as no consensus but since then, there's some inkling that these sorts of lists don't belong on Wikipedia. Redundant to various categories and tag schemes, for example Category:Astronomy articles by quality. MER-C 13:38, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - The category on this topic (Category:Astronomy) is better suoited for use on navigation. This list is unmaintainable, and no one want to maintain it. Dr. Submillimeter 14:01, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete and redirect to List of basic astronomy topics, which is actually a useful article. JulesH 15:10, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete List adds nothing a category cant Corpx 15:48, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete despite their astronomical importance. Redirect per JulesH. --Dhartung | Talk 19:24, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete achieves no goal. Dan Gluck 19:53, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete — per nom. — RJH (talk) 20:11, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete we have categories for what would otherwise be ungodly huge and unmaintainable, indiscriminate lists. Someguy1221 22:07, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete useless list and way too long. The category mentionned above should be enough.--JForget 22:28, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletions. -- Bduke 23:05, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom —Travis^talk 23:26, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete or move to WikiProject space as a historical page. The second list (#2) should be deleted, the first list might be of historical interest, of how WikiPedia worked before Categories were implemented. 70.55.91.131 08:26, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - Is this even worth keeping in WikiProject space for historical purposes? Would anyone even bother using it or looking at it? Dr. Submillimeter 09:26, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete It's in 500 categories. Enough said. Bulldog123 18:39, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - Is it possible to speedy-delete List of astronomical topics 2? It appears in literally hundreds of categories, and removing these categories might be too difficult. Dr. Submillimeter 20:07, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Userfy or move to project-space. The article says it is used to monitor changes to related pages. The category does not do the same thing, because of sub-categories. So it should be moved to User space for this purpose. Dhaluza 20:08, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - Does anyone use the pages this way? Dr. Submillimeter 20:23, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • I assume XJamRastafire, the editor who created the list does, because that's what he/she wrote. And the list has had many other editors, so they may as well. This is not a good enough reason to keep an article in the main space, but is sufficient to justify keeping it in user or project space. Dhaluza 02:45, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Comment - If the list is kept but moved to userspace, can List of astronomical topics 2 be edited so that it does not appear in hundreds of categories? This is a severe technical problem. Dr. Submillimeter 09:08, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Being one of 'the other editors', don't assume that we actually use the list, we may just be passing by + doing some tidying!
      EdJogg 09:10, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete -- 'List 2' was created in the last few days following an enquiry at Wikipedia:Village pump (assistance)#List of everything related to astronomy. I created User:Quellem/List of everything related to astronomy for this user, after his initial enquiry, and removed his mass addition to 'List 1'. However he has since created 'List 2' in main space as well.
  EdJogg 09:19, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have understood my mistake, the list will be moved to my personal space. My project turned out not to be so easy I thought previously and must be postponed. --Quellem 10:32, 23 July 2007 (UTC) Ye may delete list you are talking about. I am really sorry. --Quellem 10:55, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Projectify into Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomy. If this page is meant to be used as a way to track changes to articles related to astronomy through the "Related Changes" feature, then why not move it to the project that would have the most use for such a thing? DHowell 01:14, 26 July 2007 (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.