Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of weblogs

Wikipedia is not a web directory. Besides, List of notable weblogs just went through VfD, where the overwhelming decision was to Delete. However, the action taken was to redirect to this equally lame article. This action went against the Wikicracy.

• What? This has been through VfD. Why put it back so soon? I like the structure now (though the formatting may leave something to be desired.) I'm not going to remove this from VfD, but I feel as though the community has already decided on keeping this and our efforts would be better spent copyediting the article. Keep. --Ardonik.talk() 22:26, Sep 16, 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. We have List of search engines, list of web comics, list of news web sites, and list of wikis. Why are blogs somehow less worthy? - SimonP 22:28, Sep 16, 2004 (UTC)
  • Because there are possibly millions of weblogs and it's difficult to draw the line at which ones are notable enough to be in the wikipedia. A page like this would need daily babysitting from people wanting to advertise their sites. ~leif @ 22:52, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
    • Comment: at the risk of repeating my words from prior discussions, there is a simple solution for this: disallow both red links and external links from the article. The article would still need babysitting to keep the linkspammers out, but at least it would be clear what to take out and what to keep in. --Ardonik.talk() 23:12, Sep 16, 2004 (UTC)
    • List of people is not open to all six billion of us, and similarly list of weblogs should not contain all blogs. All Wikipedia lists are limited to items that deserve encyclopedia articles. - SimonP 23:26, Sep 16, 2004 (UTC)
      • I suppose if the list was limited as Ardonik suggests above, there isn't anything wrong with it, but I don't see how such a list is any better than just using the Category system. I mostly am opposed to this list based on the fact that a good deal of wikipedia lists are full of red links and external links. I'll change my vote to Keep-with-restrictions. ~leif @ 23:36, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Delete, or redirect to Category:Weblogs, or keep with note disallowing red-or-external links. If a weblog is notable enough to be on wikipedia, it should have an article, and it will show up in the category view. Incidentally, a few days ago I edited List of weblogs to redirect to Category:Weblogs (instead of a nonexistant section on Weblogs which it had been redirecting to for quite some time before). Now I can't find any record of my making that edit... Did someone move another page on top of List of weblogs and obliterate the previous history somehow? Just wondering, because I know I made that edit. Anyhow, delete or redirect-to-category is fine with me.~leif @ 22:30, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

adding to my confusion, I noticed that I appear to have edits listed on Talk:List of weblogs that I actually posted to Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/List of notable weblogs. I now see that User:SimonP moved moved that VfD discussion on top of this article. My comments refered to List of weblogs in the context of being on the VfD page for List of notable weblogs, and are out of place now. Why was that page moved?~leif @ 22:38, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

• delete this is just asking for a list of sveral thoudsand weblogsGeni 22:45, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Comment: those who are voting on this topic anew should look at the recently closed Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/List of notable weblogs (it was, in fact, delisted from VfD just this morning), the presence of which is the basis for my vote to keep. --Ardonik.talk() 23:08, Sep 16, 2004 (UTC)
• Delete. Wikipedia is not a web directory. This is the sort of thing that can be done far better by the "outside" web. And it's just asking for abuse from bloggers anxious to boost their Google pageranks. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 00:20, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Delete, replace with/redirect to category. List of notable weblogs should have also been deleted. -Sean Curtin 03:02, Sep 17, 2004 (UTC)