Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of quotes featuring Berlin

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The result was delete. Ad Orientem (talk) 00:34, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

List of quotes featuring Berlin

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As the title suggests, this is a collection of quotes about the city of Berlin. However, WP:NOTQUOTE says, "Wikipedia articles are not ... Lists or repositories of loosely associated topics such as (but not limited to) quotations, aphorisms, or persons (real or fictional). If you want to enter lists of quotations, put them into our sister project Wikiquote." In fact, Wikiquote already has a page of quotes about Berlin. So this page is not appropriate for the encyclopedia. Metropolitan90 (talk) 03:25, 13 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Germany-related deletion discussions. Metropolitan90 (talk) 03:45, 13 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Metropolitan90 (talk) 03:46, 13 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Wrong medium for such things. Clarityfiend (talk) 09:50, 13 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 11:13, 13 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 14:41, 13 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This article has a more extensive collection of quotes than does the corresponding Wikiequote page at q:Berlin, so this material should be transwikied to Wikiquote for potential merge per the procedure spelled out at q:Help:Transwiki. --Arxiloxos (talk) 17:36, 13 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as wrong medium. Not suited to Wikipedia. Consider trans-Wiki. Ajf773 (talk) 18:18, 13 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep (a dissenting view). I think "Quotations about Berlin" is a better title, but I do not support deletion. Yes, there is WP:NOTQUOTE, but I feel that is more intended towards collections of witty aphorisms on diverse topics. Here, we do not have a "repository of loosely associated topics." This article is limited to quotations about Berlin. Berlin is an important world city, but its history means that some of the quotes bear meaning beyond that of the city itself; I mean "Ich bin ein Berliner" and "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!". All that said, Wikiquote may be a more desirable place for the quotations, though I still do not object to its presence in mainspace.Roches (talk) 18:21, 13 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:NOTQUOTE. I don't see any way to pussyfoot around this: we're not Wikiquote and we're not going to be. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 23:25, 14 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:NOTQUOTE and above. --Lockley (talk) 06:05, 15 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:NOTQUOTE. In theory, one could compile such a list for absolutely any subject at all — and while I'll grant that not all possible lists would contain a quote as iconic as Ich bin ein Berliner, that's not in and of itself a reason why Berlin should count as a special case. Bearcat (talk) 16:38, 15 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:NOTQUOTE and WP:INDISCRIMINATE - GretLomborg (talk) 18:42, 16 June 2017 (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.