Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Timeline of architectural styles 6000BC – present

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 keep. Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:53, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Timeline of architectural styles 6000BC – present

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This and its related articles were declined for speedy deletion and prod, but I have no idea why. There is no content in any of them other than an unsourced timeline. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:00, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Architecture-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:45, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Nominator suggested to redirect another page here [1] and delete this page. This is not logical. Besides, this diagram is helpful and therefore must be kept.Biophys (talk) 16:21, 26 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:00, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Clever, useful navigation aid. Should be based entirely on existing article content, specifically on the articles linked. Seems to be upside down Gantt chart style. This style of presentation of material is normal, and not copyrightable. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 11:17, 28 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Like lists, timelines don't need to demonstrate that they themselves are notable. Helpful to the reader, and because these charts employ MediaWiki, the only way they could be copyvios is if they had been taken from another website that used MediaWiki — information itself can't be copyrighted. Nyttend (talk) 14:38, 28 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
KeepUseful navigational aid. The entries should be articles in their own right. Architectural styles are certainly given dates in textbooks and other encyclopedias, so the chronology is sourceable. The original reference was to a defunct website of unestablished reliability, viewable through the Internet Archive at [2], but obviously other sources can provide dates. Any textbook of humanities or of architecture could be used as a basis, and I doubt there would be much disagreement over when a style emerged. There would be disagreement for the "end" of a style, since any modern McMansion, school or bank might be built in any given historic style. Edison (talk) 22:48, 28 December 2010 (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.