Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Evolution-Data Optimized service providers

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was no consensus. Insufficient participation. No prejudice against speedy renomination. -Scottywong | gossip _ 21:11, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

List of Evolution-Data Optimized service providers

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Delete per WP:DIRECTORY. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 06:04, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Leaning Keep, cleanup and improve – Which of the seven points of WP:NOTDIR does this supposedly fail? The article actually passes all seven points of WP:DIRECTORY. Furthermore, it clearly passes WP:LISTPURP. It's a useful navigational aid with a discriminate topic focus. Northamerica1000^(talk) 17:59, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- NOTDIR #0: "Wikipedia is not a directory of everything that exists in the world or has existed". The scope of this article essentially extends it to every vendor of wireless broadband in the world, which is hardly a smaller scope than the deleted List of Internet service providers. The only practical solution here is the category system: keeping this would be mindless busywork. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 18:17, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  - You make some points here that are valid. Unfortunately, the nomination for deletion is not particularly correct. I've modified my !vote above (added "leaning"). Northamerica1000^(talk) 18:43, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  - For comparison, here's an example of an article that (in my opinion) actually fails WP:DIRECTORY: List of United Parcel Service hubs. Northamerica1000^(talk) 18:44, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:36, 4 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, BusterD (talk) 15:01, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —Tom Morris (talk) 18:44, 17 September 2012 (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.