Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Korean art

This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record.
The result of the debate was keep. —Korath (Talk) 03:05, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)

Korean art

The article is essentially simply a list of articles on types of Korean art (most of them non-existent); it is essentially doing the job of a category. I've created the category, Category:Korean art, and added it to all the extant articles on the list. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 12:32, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Comment. Definite potential for encyclopedia article but deletion would allow someone to create new article. Would vote keep even if decent stub created. Capitalistroadster 13:15, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • I thought that, except that the actual and projected articles seem between them to cover everything that might be said on this page. Still, if it could be shown that a useful article could be created, I'd certainly change my vote. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 17:06, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep now that article discusses Korean art. Still some room for expansion. Capitalistroadster 10:04, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, categories cannot replace lists, due to lack of annotation, lack of red links, lack of flexibility to merge/demerge, inability to cope with duplicate names, etc. Kappa 16:54, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • I thought that lists were deprecated? Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 17:06, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
    • They aren't yet. The idea was to have categories deprecate (some) lists - but currently lists have some functionality that cats don't. This is expected to be fixed some time in 2005. Radiant_* 09:48, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)
  • Categories can handle redlinks. They go on the category page or on the category page's talk page. Uncle G 18:25, 2005 Apr 8 (UTC)
• Comment: apart from the list thing, we don't have a history of Korean art yet, and this would seem to be a good place to start it. Kappa 18:57, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep'. Lists are not categories. RickK 23:08, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. The article is now an article. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 09:58, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep The article is progressing well indeed and should be of great use to everyone on this obscure subject. Raffles 22:02, April 11, 2005 (UTC)

This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.