Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of websites using Ajax

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 of the debate was DELETE. — JIP | Talk 08:13, 15 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Delete article which is simply a collection of external links. Wikipedia is not a web directory. Mindmatrix 02:14, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Even encyclopedias have appendixes and/or references to exterior sources. This is a very pertinent page. If people wants to remove it please add the content to the more generic ajax page.
• Keep it has more potential than the List of Guantanamo detainees, which survived AfD. Eventually, the external links could become articles. Joaquin Murietta 08:11, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, consists solely of external links, sites will be added for advertising. -- Kjkolb 08:21, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, per Kjkolb. —Cleared as filed. 09:12, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, as said the page adds no value, suggest moving the most important links into Ajax (programming) and deleting list page. -- StephenHildrey 09:17, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Wikipedia articles are NOT lists of external links. The major ones can be included in the article on Ajax article as suggested above. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:36, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as MGM --Carlos Prats 11:13, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - Mgm has (as usual) hit the nail firmly on the head. Just zis Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] :: AfD? 14:00, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. ESkog | ^Talk 15:19, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. KillerChihuahua 18:03, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, agreeing with Kjkolb and MGM. Note that "AJAX" (an acronym, not "Ajax") is not a software package whose use can be verified, but a set of techniques whose use is not really notable in distinguishing these sites (not a complete nor completable list) from others. Barno 20:32, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, all of the good reasons have been listed. Also, as a direct counterpoint to the only keep, most of those sites already have articles, but the list isn't merit-worthy enough. If we're going to do this, why not create List of websites using HTML. ^demon 02:59, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Preaky 04:23, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• NN, D. ComCat 05:27, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, doesn't make much sense - we have one kind of vaguely defined technology that can, and will, be used everywhere if the hype is to be believed. So this list is going to become unmaintainable, huge, and pointless, hard to tell apart wheat and chaff. --Wwwwolf 13:24, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep For a rapidly advancing technology, such as Ajax, lists such as these provide valuable references. Occasional "pruning" eventually may be needed of really "old" entries. Dynamic lists, such as this one, are of value. frankatca 20:54, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep This is one of the best articles on wikipedia, even if it is just a collection of links. AJAX is in its infancy, and only some websites implement it as yet. I would not have known about many AJAXed websites, were it not for this article. I view this article as a growing list, and a prime example of the benefits of collaborative writing. This article would need to be deleted/modified when the list of AJAX websites is huge, but now is not the time. (unsigned comment by User:65.93.219.169 - first edit on WP)
• Keep For anyone interested in learning more about AJAX this list of early adopters allows one to research the breadth and types of web applications which can be built, and the maturity of those applications. (unsigned comment by User:162.33.148.242 - first edit in 5 months; four edits total, two on this page)
• Delete Wikipedia is not a web directory. Ditto. Nuf said. --Abu Badali 17:32, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per above arguments. *drew 23:28, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep I fell on this page from google looking for groupware components. It has been very useful to me. --Michel Parisien 4:45 12 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - unless we're going to add a 'list of pages which use tables' page...(unsigned comment by User:193.62.25.51) - third edit on WP
• Keep Until (if) the technology becomes truly ubiquitous, it is useful to give instances of the technology's use. Paring the list to only a few and including those into the article would take away from this purpose as someone wanting to educate themselves on a technology not yet in broad use would probably want to see it used in a variety of circumstances to observe what uses are closest to his/her specific interest   I found the list useful for that reason. The advertising danger seems relatively small given that a site would have to specifically fit in a relatively small population of sites that use AJAX. Since the use of the technology isn't ubiquitous, this isn't "turning the Wikipedia into a web directory." Adam Faanes 10:20, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete' Wikipedia is not a web directory. It doesn't matter if people find a web directory usefull. If tthey do, they should go to one, make one, or whatever. We're not it. Shanes 20:54, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Crop/Merge with Ajax (programming)#External links (which I'm realizing could use a little cropping as is...) -Haon 02:42, 14 November 2005 (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.