Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of renamed products

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 No Consensus. Eluchil404 03:27, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

List of renamed products

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Very difficult to maintain such a list; hopelessly un-useful as a reference. In todays global economy, products are often marketed with different names in different countries, inherently renaming them. All but completely unreferenced. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Mikeblas 15:58, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

• Keep Not unmaintainable... product names do not change from day to day, and tracking of name changes is notable. Usually, there's a reason why a name has been changed for a product. This is a concise way of recording transition in consumer marketing. Mandsford 20:43, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletions. -- the wub "?!" 18:39, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete This is a list of loosely associated topics. The items on the list have no relation to each other except for the fact that they incurred a name change Corpx 19:42, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
• Keep, valuable as a navigation tool, but consider name change. Most are companies or services, not products. "No relation to each other except for the fact that they X" is the definition of any list. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 21:21, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. The question is whether what defines the list is sufficiently significant or fundamental to the nature of the items on the list. In this case I think not. Wikipedia is not a directory -- directories are too hard to maintain. This article invites every tiny little non-notable product with a name change to advertise itself. --Coppertwig 23:40, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. Correction of disuseage of above comments, remove non-notable and unimportant. Roded86400 15:44, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

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.