Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of ancient Chinese


 * 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 Page move to Lists of Ancient Chinese. Liz Read! Talk! 00:41, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

List of ancient Chinese

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The scope of this list is way too huge for a Wikipedia list. Mucube (talk • contribs) 01:50, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Lists of people and China. Mucube (talk • contribs) 01:50, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Lord Roem ~ (talk) 01:52, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Comment: We have List of ancient Romans and List of ancient Greeks. On the other hand, there might be some difficulty defining the scope of this article (what marks the end of ancient China? Qin unification, the Opium Wars, the Xinhai revolution, something else?) that's less of a problem for those articles. Eventually it might be better for this article to become a list of lists and have individual articles like List of Han dynasty people, List of Tang dynasty people, etc. We already have Lists of people of the Three Kingdoms. I'm not sure what the best option is, but in principle the huge scope problem can be solved by dividing up the list and making the main article an index of the sub-lists. —Mx. Granger (talk · contribs) 03:04, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
 * To your point, anything Pre Qing dynasty should count as the Qing brings you from 16xx to 1912 or so. Ask me about air Cryogenic air (talk) 15:15, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Even if we can all agree on a single definition of ancient China, the list would be way too huge and unmanageable for one list. Heck, even just List of Tang dynasty people would probably be too huge for a single list. I think the reason that Lists of people of the Three Kingdoms exists is that the Three Kingdoms period only lasted about 50 years, a relatively short period of time, and there aren't many historical sources for the period. (Sanguozhi, Houhanshu, and Jinshu are pretty much it) Mucube (talk • contribs) 23:04, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Those are good points. Deletion sounds reasonable if no one has a better idea. —Mx. Granger (talk · contribs) 02:42, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 01:48, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Move to "Lists of Ancient Chinese". Both arguments above are pretty valid, so I think a restructure is probably a better solution. This list can be changed into a collection of smaller lists of Ancient Chinese individuals, sorted by centuries or fields, kind of like how Lists of wars is currently organized. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 02:55, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Move to "Lists of Ancient Chinese" per Tutwakhamoe Elinruby (talk) 02:25, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Move to Lists of Ancient Chinese people, per same reason as above but with extra clarification for consistency with Category:Ancient Chinese people. –LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄ ) 14:46, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. –LaundryPizza</b><b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d  c̄ ) 16:42, 26 January 2023 (UTC)


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