Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Afrikaners


 * 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. consensus is that this lacks a clear scope and is unreferenced Spartaz Humbug! 05:33, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

List of Afrikaners

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This list contains no references, and extensive original research. Afrikaner is a contentious and suspect class as it is. Once all unreferenced entries are removed per WP:LISTPEOPLE this page will be blank. -- Selket Talk 23:18, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete Weak consensus on categorical membership. The discussion section of the Afrikaners article is indeed in some dispute and has yet to determine what characteristics make an individual an Afrikaner. I Jethrobot (talk) 00:00, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions.  — • Gene93k (talk) 01:14, 23 June 2011 (UTC)


 * There is no definition of the term Afrikaner that all concerned groups agree on. As such the list does not mean much: anyone from Africa could be in. As a statement of identity it does indeed mean something because a certain political assertion is made by it. Unfortunately, "I am an Afrikaner" means different things depending on the ethnicity of the speaker, and something like a List of people referring to themselves as Afrikaners would of course need a reliable source for each entry. In summary: Delete because this list would need a complete rewrite and a new name in order to become encyclopedic. --Pgallert (talk) 08:51, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Merge/Rename While Afrikaner is notable, this article really belongs in a List of South Africans, where the division is based on a political nationality and not on a questionably defined and politically charged ethnicity. Eauhomme (talk) 16:16, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
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