Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/List of themes


 * 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. —LrdChaos (talk) 15:32, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

List of themes
As with the recently-deleted List of people by occupation, the List of themes offers no value over Category:Themes, and is a maintenance hassle. A temporary redirect could ease the transition (although I think most of the references to this list are from lynx), but Wikiquote has really outgrown the utility of such lists. (There are no redlinks currently on List of themes, and we now have a place for people to request creation of pages.) 121a0012 19:34, 10 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Vote closed. Result: delete (three votes to delete, no dissent). —LrdChaos (talk) 15:27, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 03:32, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I support deletion for this article, but before we do, we should make sure that the articles it currently links to are put into Category:Themes. In that process, we should probably try to come up with a definition for what constitutes a theme, because it's a rather broad definition, and some of those things aren't really "themes" the way I consider them (for example, I don't know that I consider fields and occupations (Archaeology, Advertising, Marketing) or political ideologies (Libertarianism) to be "themes" in the same vein as Education or War). —LrdChaos (talk) 18:32, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * There are currently exactly 50 pages that are linked to List of themes. (There were thousands, but I have updated lynx to point to Category:Themes, at least for the time being, to make the scope of the challenge clearer.) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 05:55, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
 * A small edit to theme-stub brought that down to 20, of which only four are in the main namespace. 121a0012 06:52, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
 * And now all that's left is the Main Page. 121a0012 17:21, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: In response to the point made by : I think we need to see these as theme pages, not pages about themes. That is to say, they are another way of looking at the full range of quotations—as organized by subject—rather than a subset of quotations on the topic of Platonic ideals.  Perhaps we should consider renaming "Themes" to "Topics" or "Subjects", but that's likely to be quite difficult.  121a0012 17:21, 17 September 2006 (UTC)


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