Talk:List of common file extensions

Inclusion criteria

How does one define "common"? There are literally 1,000,000s of applications, some of which may well be specialised software used by millions of people (e.g. any number of accounting packages, any number of programming languages, MATLAB, AutoCAD and literally 100s more). I foresee this list ballooning out of control purely based on the number of popular applications in the world, not to mention that most applications use several different file extensions, not just one. Where do we draw the line on these? There are websites out there which do the job much better than this list ever could. In a nutshell, I suggest this list voluntarily be deleted as unmaintainable. Any thoughts? Zunaid 08:14, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I can see the above, but it would be helpful if Wikipedia (which is a portal to information, and this would fall into it) maintained a list (albeit only for reference and not too in depth) of extensions. They could even be integrated into the TLA series, which would mean far less stray pages. Matejhowell 16:34, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]