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List of fast food restaurants

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This page is very long and seems to be list of every single fast food restraunt known notable or not. The page is basicly a collection of Internal and External Links mixed in and violates these policys and Guidlines: WP:SOAP, WP:NOT#LINK,WP:LINKS, and possibly WP:DIRECTORY Sawblade05 (talk to me | my wiki life) 01:42, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The list is superior to the categories because much of it contains redlinks. Tim Q. Wells 02:21, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Mayhap the folks who care can userfy the list, and create real articles for the redlinks. SolidPlaid 03:07, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete o.O That's a very indiscriminate list. Maybe convert it into a category, with inclusion criteria (e.g. there must be a legitimate wiki article on it). i said 02:27, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Another misuse of the word indiscriminate. I don't see how this article fits any of the mentioned policies. How WP:SOAP applies, I can't fathom. WP:LINKS applies to external links, not wikilinks. CitiCat ♫ 02:38, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, I would agree there shouldn't be these external links in the article, and they should probably be removed. CitiCat ♫ 02:43, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Because fast food restaurants is a commonly used grouping. A list of restaurants that have eight letter names, or that have green signs, would be an indiscriminate list. CitiCat ♫ 02:43, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, those would be more discriminate lists than "fast food restaurants". Not be semantic, but indiscriminate means lacking in finite distinctions, which, other than "it's a fast food restaurant by someone's standards", this article lacks. i said 02:45, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Then list them this way: if the Wikipedia article can make the judgment on whether it is a fast food restaurant then it should be in the list. Tim Q. Wells 02:49, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Well, to use Wiktionary, indiscriminate means "without care or making distinctions, thoughtless", which I would take to mean you're just making up lists without any thought to whether there is a logical grouping of the list entries. But this is exactly why I've tried to get that language in WP:NOT changed, because it just causes arguments. "Fast food restaurants" (note the plural) returns 1,700,000 ghits, it's a very commonly used category, including tons of articles in periodicals, and directories. And of course we have Category:Fast-food restaurants which would have to be deleted as well. As to a definition, I think it would be generally defined as an establishment where the food is pre-prepared [1] and counter served. CitiCat ♫ 03:07, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete There are a plethora of categories much more adequate for this: Fast-food chains of the United States | Fast-food chains of Canada | Fast-food franchises | Fast-food burger restaurants | Multinational food companies |, etc, etc. --Victor falk 03:03, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Categories are not more suited because they cannot contain redlinks. Tim Q. Wells 03:05, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
That is just wrong. It is better covered by the list because categories cannont contain redlinks, as I said above. Tim Q. Wells 03:15, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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