Deletion of Long articles in Rees's Cyclopaedia

Comment: or possibly merge). Quite simply,  is not relevant: not one of the eight bulleted entries under that guideline applies to the article. (And the nominator has recently put forward other articles on the same  basis: Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_successful_coups_d%27%C3%A9tat|1, Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_assassinated_people_(2nd_nomination)|2.) The encyclopaedia itself is notable and, while one could argue forever about what cut-off to use for "long" articles, the longer articles indicate what the encyclopaedia's compiler believed to be the most significant topics of the day.  Perhaps the huge tables aren't necessary and maybe the information would be better presented as a section of the main article ("The main topics given significant coverage (more than 15 columns) are: aardvarks, bananas
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTDIR||WP:VAGUEWAVE)