Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lists of people

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 delete. Sandstein 23:06, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Prod contested as "a valid navigational aid", but I don't see how anyone would use this to navigate. This is an indiscriminate list with a mish-mash of articles that don't have any particular relationship to each other besides relating to people. List of Disney Legends, List of celebrities on The Simpsons, List of people who have declined a British honour, List of kidney stone formers, and other assorted pages are here, while excluding many related topics, as this page has no criteria for inclusion. While I understand that material can and often should be listed in both a list and a category, I see no benefit to this article over Category:Lists of people for either reference or organization. It seems of the thousands of pages in that category and its many subcategories, a few score were randomly drawn out of a hat to put here (with an emphasis on diseases). As such I don't see a compelling reason to keep this. Reywas92^Talk 20:37, 8 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. As I said when I contested WP:PROD deletion, this is a strange deletion proposal. This is a central part one of Wikipedia's navigational systems, and the nominator only gives reasons why it should be improved, not why it should be deleted. The criterion for inclusion is blindingly obvious: that the entry should be a list of people in Wikipedia. If the list is too long then this can be a list of lists of people. Phil Bridger (talk) 20:46, 8 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Actually, thinking about it, this article should be called List of lists of people and, if it ever gets too long, should become List of lists of lists of people. Phil Bridger (talk) 20:53, 8 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • List of lists of people would not be an improvement to this article, it would basically be deleting this article and starting over. Only a fraction of pages on this article are "Lists of people..." rather than "List of X people"s, and the organization is lacking. Category:Lists of people is for navigation, but copying that into a list form would hardly improve anything. However if that is desired for a hierarchy of some sort, delete this article and create that one instead. Putting every "List of X people" here would be neither manageable nor a useful topic, which is why there are dozens of categories and subcategories for that. Reywas92^Talk 21:17, 8 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 20:49, 8 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 20:49, 8 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete From what I see this list offers nothing of value to Wikipedia in its absolute randomness. If it becomes an acutal, more specific list then I could see keeping it.Trillfendi (talk) 21:32, 8 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Un-encyclopedic and the subject is far too broad. The problem is that there are very specific entries such as List of brain tumor patients and List of nonviolence scholars and leaders, but more generic ones, such as Lists of people by disease or Lists of leaders, don't exist and aren't going to be made anytime soon. Until those more basic lists are done it is impractical to improve the "Lists of people" article in any meaningful way. Esiymbro (talk) 03:21, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete It is a violation of WP:NOTDIRECTORY.CircleGirl (talk) 07:26, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per WP:TNT. In its current form there is no encyclopedic value and no navigational utility. buidhe (formerly Catrìona) 08:02, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Agree with above, this list does violate WP:NOTDIR.It says specifically Wikipedia is not a list of loosely associated topics such as people. It is also not usable. It is both too large and too small - too large because it's all encompassing, it includes all people including fictional characters. Too small because the possibilities are endless. Aurornisxui (talk) 15:04, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - serves no good purpose Spiderone 19:19, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per WP:NOTDIR.--Staberinde (talk) 17:20, 10 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as too broad and less than no improvement over Category:Lists of people (unless it includes Soylent Green in some way, in which case, still delete). Clarityfiend (talk) 19:33, 10 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak Keep we must have something at this title, even if just a redirect. While there are certainly content issues, I think a curated list of some sort is better than a redirect to the category. power~enwiki (π, ν) 00:44, 12 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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.