Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of sport utility vehicles

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Extraordinary Writ (talk) 18:57, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

List of sport utility vehicles

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This seems like an absurd page to even exist. Arguments are the following:

1. This is functionally a category (actually, multiple categories stapled together, we'll get to that in a minute), not a list suited for the mainspace.

3. There is no possible way this list will ever be exhaustive at any point in the future. Dozens (possibly hundreds) of SUVs/CUVs are released and discontinued each year, often multiple variants thereof.

2. This isn't even list that is possible to define cleanly, and is incredibly broad. The description already tacitly admits this — crossovers and sport utility trucks are included. Vehicles may be defined as SUV in one territory, and not as an SUV in another territory. No coffee, please. (talk) 17:32, 3 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 18:37, 3 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Products-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 18:51, 3 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 18:51, 3 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep There are a lot of list articles that are virtually the same as categories, just in article form, including List of pickup trucks and List of sports cars. It's somewhat difficult to list every SUV, but it's not impossible because only a couple models are released each month. This list might need a cleanup but I don't think it needs to be deleted. Waddles 🗩 🖉 18:52, 3 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Could this be turned into a list of lists, with the contents split out into several, more narrowly defined lists? Trainsandotherthings (talk) 19:16, 3 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep If its too long then break it off into other list articles for the different types of SUVs. Also erase those entries that don't have their own Wikipedia article. Dream Focus 20:27, 3 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - This looks like a perfectly legitimate list. Sure some vehicles don't neatly fit into SUV, but we have SUV as a topic and list of such vehicles makes sense. The broadness of it can be dealt with by splitting into sublists if that's really needed. -- Whpq (talk) 02:52, 9 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Improve the internal detailing within the page to make major distinctions clear. Footnotes, colours, paragraphs, notes etc can be used. DTM (talk) 06:58, 9 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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