Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of hospitals

List of hospitals

Important: I am also nominating every article linked to from this page.
I am not entirely sure whose bad idea this was. We do not need a list of every non notable hosptial in the entire world. Wikipedia is not a directory, Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Just to give a small sample of the 150+ articles I'm nominating:

Laughing Delete - worthless list per WP:NOT. Moreschi 12:57, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Teaching hospitals (those affiliated with a medical school) are generally notable, and so are many community hospitals. Lists of hospitals are valuable because many notable hospitals (particularly those in countries where the dominant language is not English) do not have articles, and the redlinks in the lists serve as a useful reminder of where articles need to be created. --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 13:00, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - I'm sorry, but I fail to see how something this List of hospitals in Egypt is anything but a directory, prohibited by WP:NOT. It even gives telephone numbers!! Surely WP:PROD is appropriate for this list: it's a flagrant violation of policy. Moreschi 13:11, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If a hospital is notable, you create an article on it. What you don't do is create 150 articles listing every hospital in existence when only a tiny fraction are worth talking about. -- Steel 13:16, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Strong delete - there is no "YP" in Wikipedia, please help us keep it this way. Michael K. Edwards 13:14, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. *drew 14:21, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep You are nominating 150 articles? That's a tad excessive, and hospitals are hardly less inherently notable than high schools, and there are swarms of lists about them. If you want to adjust the list to only cover notable hospitals, that'd be something worth discussing, but I'm not aware of any explicit policies on hospitals. I think it would be better to discuss that first, then tackle the list. Mister.Manticore 15:13, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comment That sounds like a good reason to delete the school lists per WP:NOT.--Isotope23 21:02, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think that's a position which you could successfully develop as a consensus, but you're welcome to try if you want to stick your hands into that beartrap. Mister.Manticore 21:25, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What, no consensus on School Articles??? Where is your sense of optimism? I'd do it, but I'm mostly retired from the school debate.--Isotope23 00:02, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Strong keep Many hospitals are very important and lists can be organised and annotated in ways that categories cannot. Merchbow 15:41, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Wikipedia is not the Yellow Pages. DCEdwards1966 16:12, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete sorry to those voting Keep, but this is thoroughly ridiculous. Danny Lilithborne 16:29, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Many hospitals are notable, and have articles, but even the best-known ones are mostly stubs. But categorizing a hospital as a hospital adds nothing, and listing hospitals as hospitals adds little. If I were looking for a hospital in a new city, I would Google to find hospitals and their ratings, so I can't see what purpose the state listings serves.Edison 17:27, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep lists by country, but not this particular list or lists by continent (it's better to use categorisation than superlists). As usual, lists perform a useful function by indicating what does and does not have an article. Only major hospitals should be listed though. -- Necrothesp 17:43, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all per WP:NOT#Wikipedia is not a directory Individual articles on notable hospitals is one thing, but many of these are directory style lists, or when you drill down they are lists by state/city just naming the hospital or redlinks. Even where they are bluelinks, something like is infinitely more useful. It looks like alot of work went into this, but there just isn't much value here.--Isotope23 21:02, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - my fingers walked, and said - WP:NOT applies. QuiteUnusual 22:13, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all ~150 of them per WP:NOT (an indiscriminate collection of information, a phone directory, etc.). ergot 19:29, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]