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Index of physics articles (!$@)

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This an all other similar articles provide nothing that Category:Physics does not while introducing another place to maintain what is essentially categorical information. WIki categories are a better solution here as they are hierarchal instead of flat like these articles. RadioFan (talk) 18:25, 8 March 2013 (UTC) I am also nominating the following related pages because reasons listed above:[reply]

Category:Index of physics articles

Delete this, and all indexes in Category:Index of physics articles. Ridiculous and un-maintainable lists which were super-ceded by categories long long ago. —gorgan_almighty (talk) 18:37, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I can see the merit of keeping these. Which is, it's good and useful to have a flat index as well as a nested-Lord-knows-how-many-deep hierarchy. Let's not declare it un-maintainable unless we've shown that nobody is maintaining them. Lewis Collard! (lol, internet) 18:53, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep All - While I wouldn't advocate anyone commit the massive amount of time necessary to create and maintain such an apparatus, it is clear that this is very well done and fulfills a valid navigational function, which is the key thing. Carrite (talk) 21:24, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or possibly meld into one Index of physics articles article. Indices of science-related articles on Wikipedia are numerous; Category:Indexes_of_science_articles lists 37 of them. Why pick on physics? If it is because the index is broken into separate articles, we could meld them into one. If it is not the physics index articles in particular, but indices in general that you think are useless, then this is something to bring up on a policy forum, not AfD. As a side note, there is no AfD notice on the 'A' page. --Mark viking (talk) 22:14, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Undecided. As they stand now, the lists don't do anything better than categories. There are also several problems just from a cursory examination. Physicists don't need to be included individually when there is already a List of physicists, and they definitely shouldn't be ordered by first name. Also, articles like zinc sulfide and zirconium alloy really belong in the Index of chemistry articles (which also lists scientists by first name). Clarityfiend (talk) 23:53, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:08, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]