Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Benevolent Dictators for Life


 * 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. --Core desat  04:03, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

List of Benevolent Dictators for Life

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This page was originally created as a breakout of the Benevolent Dictator for Life (BDFL) article. It has since been decided that a BDFL article is unneccesary, as there is only one BDFL in the world: Guido van Rossum. There is also the SABDFL Mark Shuttleworth, but I don't think these two people alone can be spun out into an article. The previous BDFL article was mostly original research on the presumption that many people call themselves "BDFL". In reality, many open source leaders call themselves just "benevolent dictators", not "benevolent dictators for life".

The list of Benevolent Dictators for Life is a list with only one valid entry in it. I was originally of the opinion that this list should be renamed to "List of open source project leaders", however I now think it would be a difficult job in reliably defining such a list that would be useful. Hence my request simply to delete this page as a no-longer necessary adjunct to the defunct BDFL article. --62.31.67.29 13:08, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
 * This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT 18:13, 27 January 2007 (UTC)


 * delete as there is no working BFDL article otherwise I would suggest merge into that. Arnoutf 20:02, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, particularly now that Benevolent Dictator for Life is a redirect. Agent 86 01:22, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
 * What the...? Good heavens, this is sourceless claptrap! Delete! YechielMan 05:45, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete This may be the article most clearly able to be deleted that I have ever seen in afd. What happened to prod? 74.73.176.167 02:55, 30 January 2007 (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.