Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of American film actresses


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The result was   keep. postdlf (talk) 20:07, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

List of American film actresses

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An unneeded list. We already have Category:American film actresses. A similar page, List of American film actors was deleted for similar reasons, so why do we only have a list of actresses and not male actors? Tinton5 (talk) 21:55, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 22:18, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
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 * Keep There is nothing wrong with having a category and a list covering the same thing, per WP:LISTPURP, since a list is more easily browsed, and since a list allows tracking removals. This means that the deletion of the list of actors due to it also being a category was not a wise move. The fact that some other article does not exist is not a convincing reason to delete a list about an extremely notable collection of entries in a field which has had a great deal of coverage for a century or so. Edison (talk) 22:58, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Not to mention this list in its current state is rather messy. Tinton5 (talk) 02:56, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:CLN.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 08:03, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:NOTDUP, "It is neither improper nor uncommon to simultaneously have a category, a list, and a navigation template which all cover the same topic. These redundant systems of organizing information are considered to be complementary, not inappropriately duplicative. Furthermore, arguing that a category duplicates a list (or vice versa) at a deletion discussion is not a valid reason for deletion and should be avoided." Northamerica1000(talk) 01:40, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep per above. →Davey 2010→  →Talk to me!→  04:54, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep I'm usually quoting WP:CLN at WP:CFD, so it's nice to see it used here are AfD, especially with a focus on the WP:NOTDUP section's explanation of why existence of one has no relevance to deletion of a corresponding category, list or navigation template. Articles for deletion/List of American film actors is over three years old and had a rather narrow participation that would likely change if the article were recreated now. Alansohn (talk) 03:50, 15 January 2014 (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.