Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Republican celebrities of the past


 * 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 of the debate was DELETE. -Doc ask?  12:08, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

List of Republican celebrities of the past
This afd nomination was incomplete. The nominator's reasoning was [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Republican_celebrities_of_the_past&diff=40230286&oldid=40065360 this is a silly list, parties change and so do people. BTW think about all the celebrities who have voted Democrat since New York became a center of entertainment]. Listing now. —Crypticbot (operator) 19:49, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete As the nom mentions, parties change over the decades, who'da thunk in 1956 that the South would be a solid GOP block in fifty years? -- Ruby  20:40, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep This list has been useful to me. Kestenbaum 22:59, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete To act like no political party has every changed is stupid. 132.241.245.49 23:42, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't get that this page implies anything of the sort. Kestenbaum 23:56, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

*Move to List of Republican celebrities. Keep. The page does not imply that the party's ideals have been (or have not been) the same all along. List of conservative celebrities would be a judgement call... Uhh, I dunno. I can see what the page is trying to do and I think it should be kept, but I don't know how to clarify it any better. Grandmasterka 09:03, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as unassailably POV list. Who decides what gets in? Stifle 11:52, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: Two parallel articles exist: List of celebrities with links to the U.S. Republican Party and List of celebrities with links to the U.S. Democratic Party. The Republican page has subheads for "Dead" in most categories.  Maybe the page under discussion could be redirected, and the information transferred. Kestenbaum 14:41, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Further comment. The page under discussion for deletion contains numerous specific instances of celebrities who took part in Republican politics directly, as candidates, officeholders, party convention delegates, etc.  If this page is to be deleted, let's at least give enough time to move that information over to List of celebrities with links to the U.S. Republican Party, so the data isn't lost. Kestenbaum 06:00, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

"Comment: Two parallel articles exist: List of celebrities with links to the U.S. Republican Party and List of celebrities with links to the U.S. Democratic Party. The Republican page has subheads for "Dead" in most categories. Maybe the page under discussion could be redirected, and the information transferred. Kestenbaum 14:41, 21 February 2006 (UTC)" Those subheads were created to show how many people listed were dead. Those people have been removed.132.241.245.49 17:40, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete this article is misleading -- just think if we had List of Democratic celebrites of the past we would also have Ronald Reagan, Bob Hope, and lots of the same folks -- and how do we know that the people listed were supporters of the the party as opposed to (some of) its candidates, from time to time. Carlossuarez46 19:41, 22 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Response: Then this page definitely should not be deleted. Kestenbaum 19:44, 24 February 2006 (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.