Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of 1974 Macropædia articles (2nd nomination)
This does not fall under any of the definitions of directory as specified in . It is not, as is alleged in the opening statements here, a directory. NOT links that entry to our article Directory (databases), where it is described as "as used in computing and telephony, refers to a repository or database of information which is heavily optimized for reading, under the assumption that data updates are very rare compared to data reads". As this is not a repository of information heavily optimized for computing or telephony reading, it is not a directory. Nor is a table of contents necessarily a directory; the pair serve separate purposes, the former reader-focused summary and structure, the latter for index and search. This is a list, which, under guideline and policy, is an eminently acceptable category of items, and has been recognized both in our Manual Style and the Featured Content processes. It is, moreover, a list on a culturally and historically substantive subject: the content and coverage of the ''Encyclopedia Britannica'', the most important encyclopedia of the twentieth century. The notion that this constitutes a copyright violation is incorrect and invalid
— User:G, 16:53, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NOT (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)