The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. Per consensus in the discussion below that any problems with the list are fixable through cleanup and development, on top of the nominator's withdrawal. postdlf ( talk) 16:38, 21 January 2014 (UTC) reply

List of breweries in Nevada

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Disputed WP:PROD. There are almost no notable entries in this list. Article is basically a linkspam farm. Wikipedia is not a directory. IronGargoyle ( talk) 22:19, 16 January 2014 (UTC) reply

Withdraw nomination. IronGargoyle ( talk) 21:44, 20 January 2014 (UTC) reply

• Comment I see most of the per-state articles have been prodded (as lists of mostly non-notable places), but wouldn't it be better to create a central list of all the notable breweries (i.e. those with articles) at List of breweries in the United States, merging notable entries as necessary? -- Colapeninsula ( talk) 22:39, 16 January 2014 (UTC) reply

  I don't see any problem with this idea. IronGargoyle ( talk) 22:46, 16 January 2014 (UTC) reply

• Keep. As nominated the list was problematic: full of entries without their own articles, sourced only to the breweries' own web sites, and failing to distinguish breweries that are truly Nevadan from those that are merely branches of out-of-state chains. I have cleaned that up and I think there is now no reason to object to the list: it is much smaller, true, but still lists three locals and two chains, all notable enough for their own articles and reliably sourced. The current article is about equally split between a prose overview of beer in Nevada and a list of breweries, so I would have no objection to moving it to beer in Nevada. The existence of at least one published booklet on this topic [Moody, Eric N.; Nylen, Robert A. (1986), Brewed in Nevada: A History of the Silver State's Beers and Breweries, Nevada State Museum, 24pp] suggests that it is notable enough to support an article and not just a list. — David Eppstein ( talk) 23:18, 16 January 2014 (UTC) reply
• Keep them all, subject to possible merging back of some of the shorter lists into List of breweries in the United States, per Colapeninsula's point above. Deleting (as opposed to winnowing) the existing state lists would be an unhelpful strategy for dealing with this. And as well, some (perhaps nearly all) of the state articles may prove amenable to editing into more substantive articles as David Eppstein has done here. -- Arxiloxos ( talk) 02:16, 17 January 2014 (UTC) reply
• Keep per the improvements to the article by User:David Eppstein ( WP:HEY). As it exists now with only blue-linked entries, it passes WP:LISTPURP. Northamerica1000 ^(talk) 03:32, 17 January 2014 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Nevada-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000 ^(talk) 19:50, 18 January 2014 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Food and drink-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000 ^(talk) 19:50, 18 January 2014 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000 ^(talk) 20:00, 18 January 2014 (UTC) reply

• Comment: Also see the related AFD discussions at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of breweries in Connecticut (which also includes AFDs for Idaho, Iowa, New Mexico, and Tennessee), plus the individual state AFDs listed below. -- Zyxw ( talk) 05:43, 21 January 2014 (UTC) reply
  • Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of breweries in Massachusetts
  • Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of breweries in Mississippi
  • Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of breweries in New Hampshire
  • Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of breweries in Oklahoma
  • Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of breweries in South Carolina
  • Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of breweries, wineries, and distilleries in Utah (2nd nomination)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.