Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of action films: 1970s
This must be the 200th list deletion debate in the last week. I saw about 20 in the prod category earlier - mostly established lists. Does anyone actually read ? Or glance at Wikipedia:Featured lists? Lists can contain information apart from the name of the article, lists can be used to see changes without having every single article on your watchlist (click related changes on the sidebar), lists can be used to keep a record of redlinks for articles that need to be created. Lastly lists and categories are indexes and they are complementary - not exclusive of each other. Both can be used to navigate wikipedia and both have advantages and disadvantages. Frankly, the reasons for this nomination are just not valid. ''"...a disaster waiting to happen"'' is not a reason for deletion (and is pure emotive POV).''"Action film" is purely OR"'' is just inaccurate - the categorisation "Action film" is widely used and recognized in the film industry, in film reference books and ironically in Wikipedia categories as well. finally, ''"will become horribly unmanageable"'' is more emotive POV, crystal ballery and ironic considering these articles were created to ''help manage'' an unwieldy list. For those voting delete (or nominating articles for deletion because they have 'list' in the name) please read Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and series boxes to understand how each of these things are valuable components of wikipedia - being a list is not a reason for deletion - current fashion notwithstanding. To borrow a phrase from another editor in a recent debate "How can we build an encyclopedia if we keep deleting the indexes
— User:Paxse, 14:03, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:LIST (Wikipedia:Lists)