Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/TLAs from AAA to DZZ (2nd nomination)

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The result of the debate was KEEP. 19 keep votes vs. 9 delete votes and 2 move votes. — JIP | Talk 05:49, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

TLAs from AAA to DZZ, TLAs from EAA to HZZ, TLAs from IAA to LZZ, TLAs from MAA to PZZ, TLAs from QAA to TZZ, TLAs from UAA to XZZ

Non notable, non-encyclopaedic, meaningless collection Psy Guy 23:29, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

This page is missing from the list: TLAs from YAA to ZZZ 132.205.3.20 19:26, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

• Weak keep only because I've used it from time to time. -- Reinyday, 23:37, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep: see prior VFD: Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/TLAs_from_AAA_to_DZZ. -- Bobdoe (Talk) 23:41, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep: hardly a facinating read but enough people find them useful. Zeimusu | Talk page 23:51, 2005 August 31 (UTC)
• Keep - see note below.
• delete what is this list doing that a search with a three letter argument wouldn't do better and faster? DV8 2XL 00:11, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, these pages have cleared VfD on more than one occassion and are quite useful. - SimonP 00:18, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep! Totally useful for browsing through TLAs, and someone put in a lot of effort here. I actually find this kinda interesting. --Quasipalm 00:03, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
• Very strong keep. Guanaco 00:49, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, useful for finding pages that need disambiguation. -Sean Curtin 01:42, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, useful. Proto t c 10:53, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
• Move to wikipedia namespace. As a reader I find it useless. As an editor it is useful, from time to time I pick a red link and turn it into a live one, that's how I found this VfD. Nabla 14:07:10, 2005-09-01 (UTC)
• COMMENT please note deletion notices for Two-Letter-Abbreviations at: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of all two-letter combinations and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of all single-letter-single-digit combinations 132.205.3.20 19:09, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
• Move out of article namespace. I can see this possibly being useful for an editor, but as a reader I'd wonder why this existed. Carbonite | Talk 19:28, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
• COMMENT, As I recall, these lists emerged from a CfD on a TLA category. 132.205.3.20 19:41, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. We don't keep articles just because they survived a previous VfD, or because someone knows how to write a nested loop. - brenneman^(t)(c) 23:56, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. It's cute and all but not actually useful. Nandesuka 00:41, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep all. -- DS1953 00:42, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep This sort of thing is very useful to editors. I've also used to make glossaries at my work Mjchonoles 06:30, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep all of them, they are useful for seeing which TLAs have articles and which don't. — JIP | Talk 06:39, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and delist. Frivolous nomination. —RaD Man (talk) 07:08, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

  Several people support deletion and a few more (including me) support moving it out of the article namespace. Please don't throw around the term "frivolous nomination"; often the nominator will take it personally. Carbonite | Talk 10:19, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

• Keep them all. If you move your scroll wheel really fast, you can make PURPLE!, yeee haa. Alfredo the sane. 11:28, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Completely useless and unencyclopaedic, just blindly generated lists −Woodstone 16:27:22, 2005-09-03 (UTC)
• Delete. Of no real value, and creates many redirects. McPhail 21:01, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. This causes the only redirect for Southern Utah University. Grrr! --fpo 22:20, September 3, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep I've created a couple of these redirect pages. It;s useful for editors and fun for readers to see how many we've done. --Rayc 00:14, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and move to Wikipedia namespace. How many more times is this going to be nominated for deletion? -- Francs2000 | Talk 16:49, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - Tεxτurε 17:53, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. I like them, and they can't use much disk space. If it creates redirects, they should probably be there anyway. ~~ N (t/c) 18:41, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete en masse, we already have the Quick Index. Titoxd 07:04, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. For most of the reasons listed above, and it's harmless. It gives the reader a visual picture of how many 3-letter combinations there are. Nonenmac 23:02, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep (and move to namespace) Simple and useful, mostly for editors. --Allstar86 02:43, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.