Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of celebrity South Korean military conscripts


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The result was delete. AustralianRupert (talk) 11:46, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

List of celebrity South Korean military conscripts

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Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. All men have been subject to conscription in South Korea for the past 50+ years, but this list covers only the past decade. This is for "notable conscripts", but the list in entirely arbitrary and centered almost entirely around Korean pop idols. To put this in perspective, "15,423 actors reported their income in 2015". About half will be men. Between those alone, that would account for 7,500+ entries. Now take into account the 4,587 singers (half being men), 30,898 athletes (a majority, if not a vast majority, being men), and we're looking at least 25,000 entries, as most of them will serve in the military, sans those who successfully dodged it at their own expense or the few who are exempt from serving (like Inati of DMTN). Now add the notable conscripts of the past 50 years on top of all that, and what purpose does this list serve? This is neither a suitable nor manageable topic. ℯ xplicit  11:43, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 14:21, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete: indiscriminate (WP:NOT) for a country where all males are conscripted. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 14:27, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete seems indiscriminate to me. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 09:09, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom Nick-D (talk) 10:08, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. -- Iazyges   Consermonor   Opus meum  20:25, 10 April 2017 (UTC)


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