Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of carriers providing SMS transit

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. NW (Talk) 15:08, 31 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

List of carriers providing SMS transit

Comment: I think the policies that cover this are: Wikipedia is not a directory and Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Also these links appear 3 times on the Wikipedia:External links#Links normally to be avoided. akaDruid (talk) 13:17, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: I must point out that I see no evidence of it being a spam target. Furthermore, this article does not fall under any of the points in Wikipedia is not a directory, a list is NOT always a directory. WP:ELNO Does not appear to apply here either. My only concern is that the article may not be encyclopaedic yet you've not raised this as a reason for deletion. --Hm2k (talk) 15:06, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Seems like spam to me. TomCat4680 (talk) 00:11, 25 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - Can you please clarify exactly what you are identifying as spam. I am seeing no evidence of spam. --Hm2k (talk) 08:22, 25 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It appears you have misquoted and/or misunderstood the policy. It DOES NOT state or suggest that "Wikipedia is not a directory of services". --Hm2k (talk) 09:53, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: I'm not an experienced enough wikipedia editor/writer to really know how to treat this article best, but I can attest to the usefulness of this article. I am a small business owner and will be implementing an email to sms gateway. It is good to know what the texting emails are to the main service providers. On Wikipedia, I know this list will always be up-to-date, which will help me keep my customer's happy. Thanks, Nick 173.21.150.128 (talk) 19:33, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: The company I work for provides severe weather alert phone calls, alert emails, and also SMS alerts, but the latter indirectly by sending an email to a phone's email address to be converted. I frequently refer customers to this list to help them set up alerts via text message. I don't believe that listing company names here functions as an advertisement, since anyone referring to the list is already going to be looking for their own carrier specifically. Nuez (talk) 00:39, 31 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: I also agree that this page is very useful to me. - Moshe

Comment: THIS PAGE IS EXTREMELY USEFULL AND IT RECIEVES MANY VIEWS FROM GOOGLE AND IS A VALUABLE RESOURCE. WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO DELETE THIS. DON'T YOU PEOPLE HAVE ANYTHING BETTER TO DO. - Ross

Comment: Agreed-- this is an incredibly useful resource, and it would be a shame for it to be removed.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rrwood (talk • contribs) 01:14, 31 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I also am not well informed as to Wikipedia policy. I will say that this article has provided a wealth of information to me also. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.123.29.35 (talk) 21:30, 30 August 2009 (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.