Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of ships
Before you snowball this, consider that our |guideline on stand-alone lists suggests that "lists that are too general or too broad in scope" can be "split into categories", which is "best done by sectioning the general page under categories. When entries in a category have grown enough to warrant a fresh list-article, they can be moved out to a new page, and be replaced by a See new list link. When all categories become links to lists, the page becomes a list repository or "#Lists of lists|List of lists" and the entries can be displayed as a bulleted list. For reference see Lists of people, which is made up of specific categorical lists." This is what should be done with this list. Note that the use of the word "categories" in the guideline is referring to "categories" in the general sense of categorized sections within the list, not to Wikipedia categories ''per se''—See |why the existence of Wikipedia categories is not a reason to delete lists
— User:DHowell, 04:29, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:SALAT||WP:CLN (Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists)