Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Gambian politicians


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The result was   keep. WP:SNOW. A frivolous nomination, easily rebutted by the discussion participants and by express guidelines. postdlf (talk) 17:22, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

List of Gambian politicians

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we already have categories for politicians. And lists like this (imagine if we created for United States) would be forever excessively long LibStar (talk) 00:48, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
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 * Keep - Per WP:NOTDUP, categories, list articles and navigation boxes are complementary. Also per NOTDUP, "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) 03:00, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep. Lists and categories are not mutually exclusive. If lists get too long they can be split. --Michig (talk) 08:42, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep In future the list could be improved with notes and references on the various people. It is a very suitable topic. It does not matter what would happen with a list of US politicians. Thincat (talk) 20:52, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep As already mentioned, lists and categories are complementary, not mutually exclusive. Should we call this a WP:SNOW, or continue the discussion? Novusuna talk 11:29, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep Wikipedia has various lists of American politicians, so I don't know what the proposer is complaining about. List of Irish politicians was kept in an AfD 2 years ago; List of South African politicians was kept in 2009. Useful for listing entries on politicians in a country suffering from systemic bias. --Colapeninsula (talk) 17:17, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
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