Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Great people of the 19th century


 * 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 of the debate was Delete. --F a ng Aili 說嗎? 22:52, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Great people of the 19th century (renamed: "Great people of the 20th century")
This list is destined to be either unfeasibly huge and unuseful or extremely controversial in the selection of its contents. A significant proportion of its current contents is already well-dealt with in State leaders by year. It would be better dealt with via a category along the lines of "People who achieved prominence in the nth century". Pseudomonas 21:51, 3 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete. Ridiculous listcruft. Article creator seems to have finally realized that this was a list of 20th century people, and has moved the article to Great people of the 20th century. Why not just call it Just about everybody you've ever heard of? At this point there are less than two dozen names, but a complete list would need thousands. Fan1967 22:15, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Such cannot become standard on Wikipedia. It is inherently subjective and therefore open to serious POV abuses. Needs to go. JBEvans 22:33, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, Yikes. Redirect to Great misadventures in subjective listcruft .  Dei zio  talk 02:04, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Utterly subjective and original research. Sjakkalle (Check!)  08:59, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per all of the above. Conscious 09:20, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NOT. --[[Image:Flag of India.svg|20px]]Srik e it ( talk ¦  ✉  ) '' 12:15, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per all the above. Metamagician3000 13:05, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete: Not a completely bad idea for an article, but much too vague and just invites NPOV abuse. There are already articles and categories like Occupation X by century N. Peter Grey 07:10, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete no objective criteria for inclusion or exclusion in the list. Carlossuarez46 17:20, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per all above. -- ReyBrujo 06:11, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, preposterous listcruft --Nydas 13:46, 7 May 2006 (UTC)


 * 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.