The result was Keep. Michig ( talk) 07:50, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
Indiscriminate list of banks with no distinguishing characteristics. WP:NOTCATALOG. Natg 19 ( talk) 00:49, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
The only real question is then whether there is value to having a master list of all bank articles in one place rather than just sublists split by country or by type (e.g., central banks, investment banks). Clarityfiend is the only commenter to address that, and raises a valid concern about the work needed to maintain it given that its only real value would be if it were an accurate and complete conglomerate of all the sublists. One way to do that would be to convert all the by country lists into standardized sortable tables, enclose everything but the lists' entries in <noinclude> tags (to exclude the headers and categories), and then transclude all the separate pages to this list (which you can do with mainspace pages no less than with templates, just add a colon after the first curly brackets). This would then combine all the entries from every separate list in one table that could be sorted alphabetically. In theory that should work, though I don't know that I've ever seen a master list constructed in that way, and any structural changes to any of the individual pages could break the effect (and I can't think right now of how this list would then identify the country, given that the sublists by country would obviously not restate that within their own tables...could a table column be enclosed in <includeonly> without breaking the table formatting? the mind reels...). But really that's the only solution I can see to making sure such a master list has no updating lags or discrepancies from sublists. postdlf ( talk) 17:39, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
The result was Keep. Michig ( talk) 07:50, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
Indiscriminate list of banks with no distinguishing characteristics. WP:NOTCATALOG. Natg 19 ( talk) 00:49, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
The only real question is then whether there is value to having a master list of all bank articles in one place rather than just sublists split by country or by type (e.g., central banks, investment banks). Clarityfiend is the only commenter to address that, and raises a valid concern about the work needed to maintain it given that its only real value would be if it were an accurate and complete conglomerate of all the sublists. One way to do that would be to convert all the by country lists into standardized sortable tables, enclose everything but the lists' entries in <noinclude> tags (to exclude the headers and categories), and then transclude all the separate pages to this list (which you can do with mainspace pages no less than with templates, just add a colon after the first curly brackets). This would then combine all the entries from every separate list in one table that could be sorted alphabetically. In theory that should work, though I don't know that I've ever seen a master list constructed in that way, and any structural changes to any of the individual pages could break the effect (and I can't think right now of how this list would then identify the country, given that the sublists by country would obviously not restate that within their own tables...could a table column be enclosed in <includeonly> without breaking the table formatting? the mind reels...). But really that's the only solution I can see to making sure such a master list has no updating lags or discrepancies from sublists. postdlf ( talk) 17:39, 15 April 2015 (UTC)