Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Presidents of Switzerland by longevity


 * 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. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 20:47, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

List of Presidents of Switzerland by longevity

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Utterly fails WP:INDISCRIMINATE--Jimbo W junior (talk) 16:17, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep This is not an indiscriminate list of information. It is a list of notable persons, sorted by their age (one of many such lists which exist here on Wikipedia). Bcperson89 (talk) 20:36, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
 * It's sorted by their age at the time they died, which is an irrlevance in terms of their presidency. Creating a list based on age at inauguration, or length of tenure would not be indiscriminate - but age at death is. I42 (talk) 16:48, 30 March 2010 (UTC)


 * This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing step 3). It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 12:36, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete, as a completely unnecessary fork of List of Presidents of Switzerland. Being a term-limited member of the Swiss Federal Council has nothing to do with longevity. If this list has any encyclopedic value, I don't see it. — Rankiri (talk) 14:18, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Commment: Based on the first keep's observations, What has been the disposition of prior AfDs of such lists?--Milowent (talk) 14:57, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I can only see List of Philippine Presidents by longevity (delete, no consensus), List of United States Presidents by longevity (no consensus) and List of Formula One drivers by longevity (deleted). See also: . — Rankiri (talk) 15:36, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Rankiri! Wow, there really are a lot of these article lurking around. (Bcperson89 seems to like creating at least some of them.)  Gotta think about it more; i wonder if folks think these lists do any harm?--Milowent (talk) 20:52, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Some of these articles do contain useful information about ages of leaders. Such a page is List of United States Presidents by longevity, which contains a vast array of information about the lifespan of each president, their age at inauguration, and the amount of time they spent after office. As was mentioned, it was up for deletion, but no consensus was reached. Bcperson89 (talk) 01:11, 25 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Another "politicians by age" AfD was List of current United States governors by age (keep), which was kept. Bcperson89 (talk) 20:36, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Neither of your examples are relevant: (a) they select on different criteria (age at inauguration is not unrelated to their term of office, whereas their age of death following that term would be), and (b) WP:WAX. I42 (talk) 16:48, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Switzerland-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 15:44, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 15:44, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. I am a Swiss politics nerd and have written, e.g., most of the current content at Swiss Federal Council, but this is just indiscriminate and useless information. Few people even in Switzerland care about who the president is (the presidency being just a rotating chairmanship of the government), let alone what their age is.  Sandstein   15:56, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. Frivolous. Information about the ages of Swiss Presidents belongs in articles about them as individuals, if they are notable enough to have them. UserVOBO (talk) 06:43, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Swiss presidents are notable enough to have their own articles, and indeed they do (see List of Presidents of Switzerland); this page can be thought of as an analog to such pages as List of United States presidents by age and List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom by longevity. Bcperson89 (talk) 04:57, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
 * The existence of other articles on useless subjects is not a reason for keeping this one. UserVOBO (talk) 05:37, 29 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete. This is WP:INDISCRIMINATE because the two selection criteria (presidents, age at death) are unrelated. I42 (talk) 16:48, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment. List of German Federal Ministers by longevity and List of First Ladies of the United States by longevity now also nominated. I42 (talk) 18:18, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
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