Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Kuwaiti companies

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The result was delete. PhilKnight (talk) 17:03, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

List of Kuwaiti companies

This is basically an advertisement page. StaticGull Talk 14:56, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, David Eppstein (talk) 04:43, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete and establish Category page: That's what categories are for, afterall. Don't need a page for this. Arbiteroftruth (talk) 06:34, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete : As per nom. --SkyWalker (talk) 06:41, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Appears to be an ad and Category:Companies of Kuwait serves this purpose anyway. Anonymous101 (talk) 07:45, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep See Category:Lists of companies by country and Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigational templates#Lists. I wasn't going to vote, but too many votes here amount to "I prefer categories to lists", which isn't a valid reason to delete anything. The topic is notable, part of a series, and lists allow for expansion as well as annotation.--T. Anthony (talk) 21:48, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and clean up. There's massive precedent for this article (as T. Anthony says, nearly every other country has one) and it can be used as a valid way of navigating between our articles on these companies. The external-links to companies without Wikipedia articles definitely need to go, but the article seems to me to be a valid use of a list. ~ mazca ^{t | c} 12:26, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, indiscriminate list, borderline advertising. Better served by a category. JIP | Talk 19:02, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete The article's creator obviously forgot about WP:NOTDIRECTORY. Ecoleetage (talk) 20:05, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I've blown through it deleting all the external links and blatant promotional entries, if someone with more knowledge of Kuwait were to delete the redlinks that really aren't notable (as opposed to ones that could use an article), and improve the summaries of the companies, then I think it'd be a decent summary of the topic, far better than a category would be. Per WP:POTENTIAL I think this is an article that could be a worthwhile way of navigating the topic with more info than the category, and many current entries are perfectly valid. I don't see a delete really helping the encyclopedia. ~ mazca ^{t | c} 23:43, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Middle East-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp | talk to me 20:43, 29 June 2008 (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.