Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of black people/white people

Comments: This argument was going on about the same time as the List of heterosexuals debate, and some of the arguments overlapped. The "keep" side wasn't helped by the fact that the creator of these pages was now-banned troll BuddhaInside.

Archived deletion debate from Votes for deletion:


 * List of famous black people and List of famous white people. See also Talk:List of heterosexuals/deletion (final archive). Angela 18:36, Sep 14, 2003 (UTC)
 * Your link from List of famous black people said to see this page for justifications. Care to post any? -BuddhaInside
 * I don't think I need to. The link I provided to a similar debate should adequately justify the deletion of these. Angela
 * The most coherent &quot;reason&quot; I see proposed on that page is that we shouldn't create lists of people who constitute a majority. Since neither whites nor blacks constitute a majority, deletion of neither of these lists is justified by that reasoning. -BuddhaInside
 * This is getting ridiculous. The next thing will be 'people with two arms', or 'list of people without disabilities'. Please delete these stupid lists. Mintguy 18:51, 14 Sep 2003 (UTC)
 * Don't give him ideas.
 * How are these lists "stupid", while List of Jews, List of English people, and List of polydactyl people aren't? - BuddhaInside
 * I think they're all ridiculous. So what if someone is black, white, English, Martian, etc. Actually, Martian people might be a valid case. What about 'people who are left-handed', or 'famous religious people'? sugarfish 21:32, 14 Sep 2003 (UTC)
 * Do you mean List of famous left-handed people and List of people by belief? This is my point exactly, I am being singled out for having my lists deleted when similar lists by other editors are left untouched. -BuddhaInside
 * Yeah, they're all "stupid". I am told that later such lists can be generated on the fly after software upgrade. So I suppose all such lists can be elimated altogether. Anyway, we don't need more stupid articles to remind us that we have many stupid articles!!! wshun 23:57, 14 Sep 2003 (UTC)
 * The wider lists (list of atheists, list of biology topics, etc) can't be eliminated until after the software upgrade. Martin 10:20, 15 Sep 2003 (UTC)
 * The only problem I see with the page is that there's already list of African Americans, which'll mean a lot of overlap. Perhaps a merge between the two into List of people of African descent or some other name, with African American being a section of that article. But I don't see why it should be deleted. Tristanb 02:13, 18 Sep 2003 (UTC)
 * Tristanb, an intent of List of famous black people is that it be blind to nationality, and not focused on those who happen to have US citizenship. That is why I have put Shaka and Kofi Annan on the list. -BuddhaInside
 * Delete please. Fuzheado 08:22, 19 Sep 2003 (UTC)
 * Delete them.
 * The best argument for deleting these lists IMHO is the fact that no Wikipedia articles link to them; they are based on links from other talk pages. Because they seem to have no real purpose other than to cause arguments here, I'm deleting them. --Modemac 12:06, 21 Sep 2003 (UTC)