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The result was delete. Doczilla _{@SUPERHEROLOGIST} 20:32, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Index of Tanzania-related articles[edit]

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This type of list can be considered depecrated, per this, this, this, this, this, this, this and probably this AFD. The index in question is a huge block of text unusable to a human reader. Would have prodded, but the AFD route was tried already in 2007. Geschichte (talk) 20:26, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 20:38, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Africa-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 20:38, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep I don't have specific rules to cite for this, but I find this list a good gathering of articles that one would not find simply by searching on Tanzania. It is much more complete than a search on Category:Tanzania. If this kind of list is to be deprecated would it be replicated by adding the Category:Tanzania to all of those articles? If so, then I could see that as an eventual solution. Lamona (talk) 21:20, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  I'd be sympathetic to this argument if it were anything more useful than an alphabetical list, but I'm not sure there's anything at all useful about it for readers in this state? What kind of use case do you see here? -- asilvering (talk) 19:28, 12 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There is a link in the article for Tanzania to this list, so from the article you are sent to a list of all of the related articles, most of which are not retrieved in an obvious way with a search on Tanzania. I agree that using the category may be more correct, but I have to say that it's not obvious how to search on categories. So if one comes to WP looking for all of the articles on Tanzania, the link from the base article is the only way at the moment. I do wish that there was a category search box on the home page. Am I missing something? Lamona (talk) 20:31, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per my comments on previous AFDs. Outline of Tanzania isn't very long, but having organization is better than an indiscriminate alphabetical list if someone wants to merge. Move to Wikipedia:WikiProject Tanzania if people have a use for this, but there's also the WP 1.0 tool for a comprehensive list for the above concerns, and the category structure works fine without needing all pages to be in the parent category too. Reywas92^Talk 21:30, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. I don't understand what benefit Wikipedia users get out of this list. We already have a much better organizational system consisting of the categories and subcategories within Category:Tanzania. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 06:00, 12 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Precedent is now set to remove all these Index lists. Ajf773 (talk) 10:07, 12 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Precedent is now set to remove all these Index lists as is being currently done with the others. -Imcdc (talk) 02:52, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete The page should be deleted. The page might be a useful tool for someone with the mass category edit tool to add Category:Tanzania to appropriate pages.Gusfriend (talk) 07:42, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Gusfriend Can you give a link to the tool? Does it take special permission? Thanks. Lamona (talk) 18:02, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It can certainly be done using Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser by someone who has been given access to it. There is also at least one tool that makes it easier to edit categories called HotCat Wikipedia:HotCat. Gusfriend (talk) 22:31, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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