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is all about sales catalogues and not including prices in lists such as this. It doesn't preclude lists of products. It would be great if the article were improved to include some detail about each product, but that is not a reason to delete. Lastly, how is this "SPAMmy"? I don't see any promotional
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this is not a lexmark catalog, which would be considerably more detailed. Its an overly concise partial summary of the current products of a major company, and immensely preferable to having articles on every one of them. What is needed is work on the article to indicate what the products actually
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This list isn't concise at all; on the contrary its rather exhaustive, showing most of the current product line. It still contains no sources or any material that demonstrates why the list itself has encyclopedic significance (has the
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Most if not all of those cars are independantly notable, so that list acts as a navigational aid. None of these products are independently notable. Therefore the article functions as a catalog of products, and nothing more. With the Toyota article there is an overlap between the functions of an
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