Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2009 flu pandemic table
The Timeline article is already 102k, longer than an article should be. This article presents the data in a useful form which allows insights not readily possible from other articles covering the subject, and presents data which is not readily availabple anywhere else in this form, since WHO just gives daily updates. The graphs do not break the data down adequately by country, and often lag far behind the data, due to the difficulty of editing the graphics. The information is important and is referenced. This is one case where the first of the Five Pillars of Wikipedia applies: "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia incorporating elements of general and specialized encyclopedias, almanacs, and gazetteers.". It is important to apply . Alternatively, could such data tables, which should be expanded to include deaths, be placed in http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikisource, or is it only for texts? I do not agree that #STATS applies to this article, since that rule applies to long sprawling lists of numbers embedded in an article which make it hard to read. As that rule suggests, this data is neatly organized in tables
— User:Edison, 23:21, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:PRESERVE||WP:NOT (Wikipedia:Editing policy)