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of what falls under IINFO. The article is basically a glorified database dump. The proper place to direct users to for this material would be some Apple help page which certainly lists the fonts. It might very well be category-worthy though.
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Unless the nominator provides a reasoning, I'll have to agree with Ikip. I can see no particular good reason to call a list of fonts unencyclopedic and since the nominator didn't give us one, no valid reason for deletion exists. -
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I don't really care for all the endless discussion about what WP is and what it is not. This is a very useful article that I have referred to several times and it is the kind of article that I expect to see on WP. Why isn't
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includes: Plot summaries. Lyrics databases. Statistics. News reports. In which this is none of the four. Detailed list of all fonts, which, with a little work, can be referenced. Definetely encyclopedic.
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Um, what? The font articles have more justification of notability than mere presence in a list article. Your comment seems like a non-sequitur. --
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An encyclopaedia is a list of articles, and this is a list of fonts. You can't gain yourself notability and coverage if you are a computer font.
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Usefulness is not directly a criteron, otherwise lots of how-to material that's currently rejected would be acceptable. --
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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If this article is kept (looks like it will, and I tend to agree), I think it should be moved to →
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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Useful for finding fonts that are cross-compatible, for one thing. And per above.--
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.
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is probably the most misused guideline in AfD disccusions,
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Knowledge (XXG):Articles for deletion
deletion review
non-admin closure
Ron Ritzman
talk
00:08, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
List of fonts in Mac OS X
List of fonts in Mac OS X
edit
talk
history
protect
delete
links
watch
logs
views
delete
View log
WP:IINFO
Cybercobra
talk
03:43, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
list of Lists-related deletion discussions
Cybercobra
talk
03:49, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
WP:IINFO
WP:IINFO
Ikip

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