473:- I think the title is unfortunate as it presumes a list and perhaps not much else. However, there is a great deal of valuable history about the walls of Dublin and its gates, not available anywhere else on Knowledge, which I think could go in here. I myself have old drawings and maps showing the gates and would be prepared to upload a selection as soon as I get the time. Hohenloh
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and add proper sources, which should not be difficult--any history of the city would do very well. People should search at least a little if the field is unfamiliar, before nominating. We could almost certainly have a perfectly good article on each individual one of them, as with other important
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an encyclopaedia of what a random set of editors at any given time might have personally heard of. That route leads swiftly to chaos. Hence the reason that deletion policy has never included any such reason for deleting, or indeed keeping, things.
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