Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of celebrities who have changed their name


 * 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 No consensus ZsinjTalk 04:39, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

List of celebrities who have changed their name

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Delete - indiscriminate unmaintainable list. Otto4711 20:50, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep It is not "indiscriminate" since to be included one must first be a celebrity and second have changed his/her name. Such a list is found in common popular reference works such as the "World Almanac." It is maintainable because if a celebrity such as Roy Roger (born Leonard Slye) is not in the list, he can be added, and if someone who is not a celebrity is in the list, he can be removed, by the simple process of editing. The birth name is listed in the main article on the individual. The normal garden variety names with which celebrities began life are of encyclopedic interest to readers. Edison 21:09, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Thousands, if not tens of thousands, of celebrities go by a name other than their birth names. Lists of thousands of people are pretty much by definition indiscriminate and unmaintainable. There is also no objective definition of "celebrity," which sort of complicates the whole "put 'em on/take 'em off" idea.


 * Weak Keep useful, but I believe it needs a cleanup and a wikify to be truly encyclopedic. JṃŁЌ17 21:28, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
 * WP:USEFUL is not a compelling argument. Otto4711 00:10, 1 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete in the early days of Hollywood, almost everybody changed their name, a practice that has not completely fallen out of disfavor. This list is not only indiscrimate, it's pretty much irrelevant. JuJube 01:44, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep - The list is clearly limited to notable people, since they all have wikipedia entries. They are defined by a distinguishing feature, so the list is discriminate. It is easily maintainable, assuming wikipedians care to do so (and given edit history this seems to be the case) --Work permit 02:08, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete This list is largely a duplication of a similar list in Stage name. That one has more context and information and doesn't have the subjective "celebrities" title. There is no reason for two of these lists. (There isn't much reason for one of these lists). Croxley 02:42, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep and do it right. Celebrities is not the same as stage performers. There is no need for 2 identical lists, but there would be a point in assembling either a more comprehensive list, or a list of those not in the stage names group. Of course the same effect could be done be deleting this and starting over. DGG 05:55, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep per reasoning given by Edison. Mermaid from the Baltic Sea 17:30, 1 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletions.  -- Pax:Vobiscum 20:19, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete The info is already in the articles. If I want to look up Gerald Fords original name I'll just look in his article. "Wikipedia articles are not: 1. Lists or repositories of loosely associated topics" Pax:Vobiscum 20:55, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep The article clearly states what it is including, but it definitely could use some sources if possible. --Nehrams2020 04:40, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per Pax:Vobiscum The JPS talk to me  15:11, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per Pax Bulldog123 13:17, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. Well-maintained list on a topic of obvious concern in the area of celebrities, a topic that gets massive coverage here. A list is the obvious way of bringing this information together. --JJay 00:08, 8 May 2007 (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.