Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of already famous people who have survived a deadly event


 * 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. -Splash talk 00:21, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

List of already famous people who have survived a deadly event
List which can never realistically be complete, POV on famous, and Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Stifle 14:53, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Way too vague. 23skidoo 15:12, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Can only ever be an arbitrary list of people with strong POV bias. If the person's famous enough, include the information on their wikipedia page. Kcordina 16:36, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Anyone notable enough to be mentioned on WP in the first place would probably have a close call with death mentioned in their biographical details in the first place. -- (aeropagitica) 17:07, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Too vague, not possible to make comprehensive list, POV magnet. --Squiddy | (squirt ink?)  17:34, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. POV on "deadly event" also. &mdash;  F REAK OF N URxTURE  ( [ TALK ] )  20:12, Jan. 4, 2006
 * Delete listcruft. For what values of "famous", "deadly" and "event"? Just zis Guy, you know? [T]/[C] [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|25px|  ]] AfD? 22:48, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Clearly for any value of deadly = not deadly - isn't that obvious :-)  Dl yo ns 493   Ta lk   23:36, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete and this is why categories are for ... not. feydey 22:52, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep and cleanup. Good informative list. -- JJay 02:45, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I'd say the encyclopaedic content of this article as written fits here just nicely without the problems of title and arbitrary classification raised above. No information need be lost. - Just zis Guy, you know? [T]/[C] [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|25px| ]] AfD? 16:06, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom -- Thesquire (talk - contribs) 04:55, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * delete. you mean like - everyone famous who survived WWII? BL   kiss the lizard  06:12, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. How would you define 'famous' and 'deadly'? As above, the list could immediately be filled with 'famous' people who were around during various wars, or at least were involved in the war in some way (ignoring the chance that Hitler could have taken over the world, meaning all 'famous' Jewish people older than 50 or so survived the threat of mass genocide), SARS could lead to the inclusion of all 'famous' Chinese people, also someone may view escaping a car crash with nothing more than airbag bruises as surviving a deadly event etc etc! Would be very POV on famous and on deadly Sadisticality 16:21, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * As Dlyons493 points out, how is it possible to survive a deadly event? This article is actually a list of people who have been struck by lightning.  See also . Uncle G 18:35, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. What everyone else has said. Plus if one goes deep enough, it is possible to find such events in the lives of almost everyone, making this a potentially infinite list. JoaoRicardotalk 21:06, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. I think that it is an interesting topic and I feel strongly that meta-list articles in the Wikipedia cause no harm.  I like this one.  --AStanhope 21:11, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete listcruft & silly. Eusebeus 18:30, 9 January 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.