Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of railways that use balloon loops

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The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:43, 18 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

List of railways that use balloon loops

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This article fails WP:NOTDIRECTORY, specifically "Simple listings without contextual information showing encyclopedic merit." I am seeking deletion with prejudice against merging or redirecting - this information is fundamentally not encyclopedic and does not merit inclusion in Wikipedia. We are not a directory of everything that has ever existed, and this list is so broad that a complete one would have hundreds or even thousands of entries. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 16:33, 11 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 16:33, 11 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - This was created six months ago as a fork of Balloon loop; it was previously a section of the balloon loop article. While the list was not split off due to policy issues, one may be justified to remove that list if it still had existed, since the section would fail WP:NOTDIRECTORY and WP:NOTDATABASE. By the same token, a standalone list on the topic would also fail WP:NOTDIRECTORY and WP:NOTDATABASE. – Epicgenius (talk) 17:00, 11 June 2022 (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.