Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of University of Oslo Faculty of Law alumni


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) Mediran  ( t  •  c ) 01:14, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

List of University of Oslo Faculty of Law alumni

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Indiscriminate list, in that I see -- as a conservative estimate -- 5,000 possible list entries. As the list itself says; "Its alumni hence includes the vast majority of the country's preeminent legal professionals, including academics, supreme court justices, senior civil servants, and a large number of politicians" and businessmen could be added to that. Much better off being categorized, if we diffuse the category "University of Oslo alumni" which has become large. Geschichte (talk) 12:56, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Weak keep: With high ranking politicians like the UN Secretary General, it seems just barely notable enough for a standalone article, provided there are enough references added to support it -RoseL2P (talk) 13:35, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Please comment on the original deletion rationale. The matter is not whether it's notable, but that it's "too notable" with thousands upon thousands of potential entries, making it indiscriminate. Geschichte (talk) 16:16, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Norway-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:20, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:20, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:20, 22 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep, completely standard list of notable alumni of a notable educational institution that easily satisfies WP:LISTPURP, with no reason not to also have a complementary category per WP:CLN. This nomination seems to simply stem from a lack of experience with or awareness of lists of this kind (though that's surprising), because as with nearly all lists of people (by nationality, by occupation, by place of origin, etc.) it is ordinary and uncontroversial practice to limit such lists only to those people who merit articles, as should have been obvious from the fact that it currently only contains bluelinks. So the "indiscriminate" claim is simply based on an incorrect assumption. postdlf (talk) 18:10, 22 December 2012 (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"
 * WP:LISTPURP:"Redundancy of lists and categories is beneficial" Ottawahitech (talk) 23:57, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
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