Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of public venues and institutions closed during the COVID-19 pandemic

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The result was delete. Sandstein 08:20, 23 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

List of public venues and institutions closed during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Article has outlived its usefulness. Created when things were just starting to close, but now you can basically say everything everywhere closed. What's here is a *very small* selection of news tidbits that is not worth keeping up to date or expanding to include virtually every venue and institution: more detailed and contextual information is at respective country/place articles. Reywas92^Talk 19:47, 15 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete Agree with nominator. The scope of closures is such as to overwhelm any attempt to have an article about them. The article is hopelessly out of date (in most countries a single item is listed) and that cannot be avoided. It would be impossible to keep this article current and accurate because things change so quickly. It would be better to have no information at all than inaccurate/incomplete/out of date information. -- MelanieN (talk) 19:57, 15 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Might be more useful to move and rewrite to be about the general topic of Closures during the COVID-19 pandemic, rather than a list of specific closures. b uidhe 19:58, 15 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Just go ahead and delete it. Every time a relevant article such as this one without much editor input other than the author gets nominated, it leads to it being nominated for deletion over and over. Discussed over and over. Its exhausting. The deletion police win this one. And my loss of participation. Thanks.Juneau Mike (talk) 20:17, 15 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Unworkable and indiscriminate. Clarityfiend (talk) 05:22, 16 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - WP:LISTCRUFT sums it up as to why such lists don't belong in an encyclopedia. Kerberous (talk) 09:44, 16 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per WP:NOTINDISCRIMINATE. There are literally going to be thousands of closures in response to this pandemic, we do not need to list every single one in the world. Notable closures should be considered on the country's article relating to its own response. Ajf773 (talk) 20:52, 17 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Not every public place closed due to the pandemic needs to be listed here. Hansen Sebastian^Talk 05:56, 18 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Question Why did this discussion get taken over by discussion of a song?John Pack Lambert (talk) 17:48, 19 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This is an extreme example of recentism. It also is almost certainly going to always be too short. Considering that in almost all the world this was at time every single public venue and institution, that is a crazy thing to make a list of. In theory this should include every Church and other religious place of congregation that we have an article on, cover the various stages of closure in every Catholic diocese that did so we have an article on (which is virtually all 3000 of them) cover not only every state that we have article on, but should include at least any early closing or late opening of every school district and school we have articles on, cover every single college and university we have articles on (which is all of them) and so much more. The problem is that most of these variations will be only slight from government directives, at least in the US. I think these issues will better be served by articles like The Catholic Church and Covid-19 or The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Covid-19 etc, then a huge scope list.John Pack Lambert (talk) 17:43, 19 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom, but without prejudice to recreation as a more general Closures during the COVID-19 pandemic per Buidhe. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 04:34, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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