Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/FIPS place code

FIPS place code and its subpages

This is just the tip of the iceberg: I look at New Pages, and was startled to see entries like "FIPS place code/Minnesota (390,351 bytes)" and "FIPS place code/Arkansas (311,887 bytes). These are HUGE subpages of lists of geographic codes. The creator is stacking 'em up, one by one. Wikipedia is NOT a primary source, and it's NOT a bunch of lists. Calton | Talk 07:33, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment Wow, I really don't know what ot say. T K E 08:06, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Keep It's a government report, relevant information, hell I paid for it. T K E 08:07, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment How about: the top FIPS place code article is good info and the subpages are deletable as not an indiscriminate collector of information. Weregerbil 08:16, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: It's sad to see so much effort go to waste, but it's right in FIPS place code that the original list can be downloaded from an official (presumably up-to-date) source. An article about FIPS place codes, maybe keeping a manageable amount of place codes as examples, would be an excellent idea. Peter Grey
  • If there was an automated way the place codes could be added to the article for each corresponding ___location, that really be neat. Peter Grey 08:26, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • I'm sure RamBot could do it alongside all his census info. Night Gyr 17:07, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• The top-level info (i.e. that on FIPS place code, rather than its subpages) can added into the InfoBoxes for the various state/territory. The insanely long complete list is not encyclopedic (primary source) and can be covered with an external link to the USGS branch that hands these things out. -- GWO
• Delete. I'm likewise impressed at how much work went into this, but what is here that's not on the gov't link? RGTraynor 16:35, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment Wikisource is the place for primary sources, so if you want to put this on a wiki, put it up there and link it from here. Night Gyr 17:04, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep an article on the FIPS place code system as such, if it is a notable reference system. Delete the codes themselves, which do not belong in an encyclopedia. — Haeleth Talk 17:20, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Transwiki to Wikisource ⇒ SWATJester   ^Ready Aim _Fire! 18:13, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: we add no value to the world by copying such an immense amount of numeric data; what we do is create a reference which will become out-of-date and therefore misleading. A reference to the primary source is the way to do this. Keep the top-level article. — Johan the Ghost _seance 18:38, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]