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Some of the info on this article is useful and should be added to each vehicles’ individual articles, but I don’t see how this is a notable category / satisfies WP:GNG. It’s an indiscriminate collection of information that belongs in sections of a main article rather than a standalone list. Also appears to contain original research, with a number of government documents used as sources, some of which don’t even support claims being made in the article. aesurias (talk) 09:10, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Recent edits have substantially changed the scope and sourcing of this article, so the original concerns about indiscriminate listing and original research are now much less applicable. The page has been refocused away from a speculative, model-by-model directory into a sourced overview of the main charging connector families used on plug-in vehicles in the United States and Canada, with only a small, clearly labelled table of representative vehicle usage. The current version relies on independent, non-Wikipedia sources (NRCan, U.S. DOE AFDC, SAE, Joint Office of Energy and Transportation, CHAdeMO, CharIN, and consumer guides) to summarise how J1772, CCS1, CHAdeMO and NACS are deployed in this region, rather than synthesising government documents to infer details that are not stated. From a content-organisation standpoint, trying to maintain connector information separately in dozens of individual vehicle articles is both impractical and error-prone; connector standards cut across manufacturers, platforms and model years, which makes a centralised, sourced overview article more maintainable and more useful to readers than scattering partial duplication across many pages. Per WP:LISTN and WP:NCON, the topic here is not a trivial “list of trivia” but a region-specific overview of EV connector usage that is already the subject of significant discussion in reliable sources. If further trimming of the example tables is needed to reduce directory-style content, that can be handled by normal editing; outright deletion is not necessary to address the earlier issues. Likeajc (talk) 02:24, 28 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep The nomination may have been appropriate when it was made (I haven’t checked) but it certainly isn’t at the present time. The article is well sourced for its specific details and for the notability of the overall topic. Thincat (talk) 17:16, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep I agree with Thincat. The current article is comprehensive and well sourced. SupermarketCake (talk) 20:05, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete this article might be appropriate as a list of charging connector types, subject to appropriate sourcing (like this?), but it doesn’t meet NLIST because the cars aren’t being talked about in RS as a group. There are a few sources like [1] and [2] which are talking about vehicles by compatibility but these are commercial sites. There’s good stuff here that could be refashioned into a list on charging connector types. Frankly I’m surprised it doesn’t exist already — it seems to reside in a template, but not as an article — but this isn’t the forum for proposing a new article. Oblivy (talk) 00:51, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete The sources are fine…individually. Per Oblivy, there isn’t anything indicating that the entire topic is notable enough for an article. Is a list of North American EVs by charger notable or needed? No. OrangeWaylon (talk) 00:08, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep – Seems like an interesting and useful article with sufficient sources to show motability. The title could certainly be tweaked, and there might be a case for more radical re-organisation, but those are not deletion questions. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 08:14, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]