Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of emergency telephone numbers

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The result was speedy keep. It's snowing.Whilst it might technically violate elements of NOTDIRECTORY, common-sense ought to prevail. (non-admin closure) ∯WBG^converse 13:21, 23 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

List of emergency telephone numbers

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The article fails WP:NOT; in particular, it fails Wikipedia is not a directory - "It is not the White or Yellow Pages. Contact information such as phone numbers, fax numbers and e-mail addresses is not encyclopedic." I could also detail the concerns about the reliability of user-generated content being used to collate emergency telephone numbers, but that's why WP:NOTYELLOW exists, to prevent this. Fish+Karate 10:43, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I am also nominating the following related page for the same reason:

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:40, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose It’s not written as a directory but more like a list of each country’s emergency number, similar in nature to the list of calling codes article. IWI (chat) 12:04, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The nomination fails WP:BEFORE as there are obvious alternatives to deletion. Emergency numbers are quite special and notable and so the page is worth preserving. Andrew D. (talk) 18:06, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the Article Rescue Squadron's list of content for rescue consideration. Andrew D. (talk) 18:14, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep a list of emergency contact numbers around the world isn't what "not a phone directory" is meant to exclude. This is content I would expect to find in an almanac or similar reference work, and is not a violation of WP:NOT. power~enwiki (π, ν) 18:18, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep no need for an explanation. This is the 2nd dumbest AfD I have ever seen after Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Imperial election of 1376, and my vote here is basically the same: please withdraw this frivolous nomination. TonyBallioni (talk) 19:43, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep A literal reading of WP:NOT is accurate, but it fails the common sense test of WP:POLICY. A convincing argument needs to be made why this list is not encyclopedic (keeping in mind there are print encyclopedia's that list emergency phone numbers, though none I can find as comprehensive as Wikipedia). -- GreenC 23:03, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete/Merge the Indonesian list into the main list. -- GreenC 23:05, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per WP:5: Wikipedia includes features of almanacs. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:35, 21 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Obvious keep and why are we even having this discussion? This is patently not a yellow pages entry, but a list with obvious encyclopedic value; if you seriously think this should be deleted, I struggle to think of any article here that you would think should be kept. Although I have to disagree with TonyBallioni, as this is at most only the third dumbest AFD nomination, given the existence of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Norwich Marketplace. ‑ Iridescent 18:24, 21 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Over 1,000 views a day, just the thing you need when you've fallen down a crevasse in Antartica (911, good luck). Johnbod (talk) 19:13, 21 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

…or you've slipped on some guano in a place that's not only uninhabited but also has its own flag (911 again). Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 20:24, 21 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Depends which you mean; in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands it's 999, in the French Southern and Antarctic Lands it's 112, in Navassa Island it's 911, and of course there's the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands where it's 000. You know how I know what all these emergency numbers are? Because we have a list of them. ‑ Iridescent 20:44, 21 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The Navassa Island flag. That explains how an island with no population got a flag, and a national anthem written by John Cage. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 04:09, 22 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

…and on the uninhabited coral atoll Clipperton Island you dial 15 for an ambulance, 17 for the police and 18 for the fire brigade. 16 puts you through to Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail, who'll give you ten recipes for land crab. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 07:49, 22 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep List of emergency telephone numbers and redirect List of emergency telephone numbers in Indonesia to it. Ajf773 (talk) 02:01, 22 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Strong keep. This is obviously valuable and encyclopedic. Invoking WP:NOTYELLOW is blindly legalistic. What possible benefit to Wikipedia would come from deleting this? Mortee (talk) 22:36, 22 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - A useful list for us to compare similar services across countries. Acnetj (talk) 08:39, 23 July 2018 (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.