Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Calendars of 2005

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 delete. Uncontroversial causa sui (talk) 16:37, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Calendars of 2005

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For the genesis of this project, see this 2005 VPP discussion. Seems like an idea that made more sense in 2005 than it does on today's Wikipedia. The 2005 page includes Gregorian, Chinese, and Islamic calendars; pages for subsequent years include only a Gregorian calendar (2008 stops after May). Given that List of calendars lists 30+ kinds of calendars as "in use", and the 2005 page is already 71k, this seems like an impractical way of presenting information that's almost entirely included elsewhere, at Portal:Holidays/Calendar, on other pages and lists linked from that portal, and in Wikipedia's pages for specific days, months and years. I posted at WikiProject Time five days ago to see if anyone had any comment about these pages, but none was received. Theoldsparkle (talk) 18:43, 8 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

To clarify: the three users below (Paughsw, Schweiwikist, and Munchkinguy) are all users who had worked significantly on the 05 or 06 pages and whom I had notified of this discussion in case they wanted to weigh in. Theoldsparkle (talk) 17:55, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I would support deletion of these pages! --Paughsw (talk) 21:21, 8 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Seconded. Self-evident as an abandoned project (My edits to "Cof2006" are from 5 yrs. ago). Reclaim the (admittedly small) space. —Schweiwikist (talk) 02:54, 9 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I can no longer maintain this project, and I imagine that there are better ways to do this than through Wikipedia, so will step aside and allow it to be deleted. --Munchkinguy (talk) 02:58, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete fails WP:GNG. Stuartyeates (talk) 07:15, 13 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not supporting keeping, but the GNG has nothing at all to do with the question; these pages which were created as sort of navigational pages for assisting readers to make correlations between articles. We no longer need them, but if someone were to insist on seeing it as a qy of GNG for notability , there are dozens of excellent sources correlating the calendars for every year. Every almanac has them, and hundreds of printed sources specifying which day comes when. It's true notability is the key question 90% of the time at AfD, but not always. DGG ( talk ) 04:14, 15 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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.