Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of companies of Australia

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete‎. ✗plicit 02:30, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

List of companies of Australia (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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Article is an incomplete, random selection of companies in Australia with no real parameters as has been noted on the talk page. It has everything from large listed companies to small family businesses. The article may have been more relevant when created in 2002, but as Wikipedia has evolved, lists of companies with more defined boundaries have emerged, e.g. List of largest Australian companies, List of banks in Australia etc making this one redundant. The only criteria for inclusion appears to be that the organisation operates through a Ltd or Pty Ltd company. Hamienet (talk) 02:29, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Seems far too ill-defined a criterion to have a list, especially when more narrowly-tailored lists exist. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 02:51, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Companies, Lists, and Australia. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 03:54, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Agree with everything above. Bduke (talk) 04:00, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• I tend to agree that the current list is overly broad. But I don't think history needs deleting. I'd suggest cutting this down to the "See also" section and renaming to Lists of companies in Australia to improve the navigational utility. Preserving history can be useful for editors looking to continue to improve organization of articles about Australian companies. —siroχo 06:50, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Have no idea what this page is doing here. Pure clutter. MaskedSinger (talk) 07:50, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Narrowly defined list of companies articles are a better alternative. Knox490 (talk) 08:45, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• I don't necessarily disagree with anyone above but looking at Category:Lists of companies by country it appears this type of list is very common. Jenks24 (talk) 08:53, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: per nom ––– GMH Melbourne (talk) 11:20, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep, other countries have these lists too. Besides, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a database. You can't expect a single article to include every company in a country with millions of people. This article should be improved instead of being deleted. SouthParkFan2006 (talk) 16:52, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  The fact that Wikipedia is not a database is the exact reason this page should be deleted. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 15:44, 23 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per WP:KITCHENSINK. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. TarnishedPath^talk 00:15, 23 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. DrowssapSMM (talk) (contributions) 02:16, 23 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.