Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of World War II veterans


 * 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 -- JForget  23:48, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

List of World War II veterans

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A list made redundant by categories, see the various sub-categories of Category:Military personnel of World War II. Leithp 09:38, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions.   —Leithp 09:51, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - I had worked on this list myself considerably, both with this account and as an anonymous IP back when I first discovered wikipedia. It's an unmanageably long list that is frequently used by people to insert names of relatives, friends, neighbors, etc. Given the number of people who are WWII vets with articles on wikipedia, and no clear criteria other than having been in the military in WWII, the list could potentially become ridiculously huge. The category handles it well enough.--Nobunaga24 (talk) 09:54, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Might want to look at these too: List of Vietnam War veterans, List of Korean War veterans, List of Spanish-American War veterans, List of World War I veterans, List of Mexican-American War veterans, List of Gulf War veterans--Nobunaga24 (talk) 10:07, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment - If someone wants to nominate these for deletion, I'd be more than happy to vote delete for these as well. 23skidoo (talk) 12:22, 24 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment, lean delete. See also Articles_for_deletion/Lists_of_military_veterans. I was going to suggest that I'd not be averse to a Lists of World War II veterans that led to more succinct lists, but the problem is probably simply that we need lists not defined by such a broad scope as "veteran", even of a single war. Surprise! Chiang Kai-Shek was a World War II veteran! So is somebody named Dwight D. Eisenhower! The list is tilted in odd ways, some sections being non-military notables like actors, other sections being a rundown of the decorated veterans (like Puerto Rico). (And since Puerto Rico doesn't have its own military, maybe it shouldn't be listed separately at all!) Too many problems. --Dhartung | Talk 10:12, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Yip, looking at it now, it borders on the absurd. Queen Elizabeth is on the list, as well as Robert Glankler, U.S. Army, hardware shop owner ;)--Nobunaga24 (talk) 10:16, 24 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete This is basically an indiscriminate collection of information and categories are more useful for this kind of thing. --Nick Dowling (talk) 11:08, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete as redundant and unmaintainable. There were hundreds of thousands of WWII veteans! 23skidoo (talk) 12:21, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment Millions, actually. Your figure just covers the US. --Dhartung | Talk 23:23, 24 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete as per directly above. Further elaboration: there's no way we can manage this list. Use a category for those who have articles. -- Auto (talk / contribs) 13:10, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete as nom. KTC (talk) 18:01, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete While it's not an indiscriminate list, there were millions of participants in World War II and most of the notable persons born in the 1910s and 1920s were involved in the Second World War. The effort is appreciated, but it's unmanageable.  Mandsford (talk) 18:30, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Having added to this list many times, I am now also of the opinion that it should be deleted.  It has become too large and really doesn't add much to the overall wiki project.  The real question now should be asked if we should also nominate the other war veterans lists.  Spacini (talk) 20:10, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Please do. I will definitely support a delete for those, I'm just too lazy to nominate them.--Nobunaga24 (talk) 23:45, 27 March 2008 (UTC)


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