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Just because you can create something, doesn't mean you should. In order to keep Wikipedia from becoming an indiscriminate collection of lists, some measure of restraint should be taken before creating a list. This essay concerns list articles. Disambiguation pages and the like are a separate class of page with a completely different purpose than list articles and topics. Certain types of navigational lists, though, may be under the scope of this essay.