Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of chancellors and other leaders of US universities

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The result of the debate was keep, although there some rewriting and cleanup may be in order. Sjakkalle (Check!)  13:16, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

List of chancellors and other leaders of US universities
This is one of those useless, neverending lists. There are thousands of colleges in the US. Each of these colleges has its president/chancellor in its own article. Anyone remember List of all cities in the United States or List of every mayor in the World? GoCardinal 06:43, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Maybe it would be better made into a category? --Dmcdevit·t 07:00, July 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: The point of the list, associating chancellors with their colleges, doesn't seem possible in a category. Christopher Parham (talk) 07:31, 2005 July 17 (UTC)
 * It's a good point, and why I asked, and didn't vote. Hmm... Can't make up my mind on this one. --Dmcdevit·t 06:52, July 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Concur with Dmcdevit. Inasmuch as some of these guys have articles, Categorize. CanadianCaesar 07:06, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * As the original creator of this article, lemme explain: there once was an article called List of Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors which had started as a badly-titled list of British chancellors & vice-chancellors, and had grown by the addition of various assorted additions from around the world. I cleaned it up and rationalized it, a major part of which was spinning off national pages. The other countries' lists, I think you'll find, are fairly well-formed; obviously the US one was grossly inadequate. But I was just cleaning up; I didn't want to delete people's work peremptorially. Now that it comes down to it, is this article is just bad, needing improvement; or hopeless, needing deleting? I dunno right now; I gotta get some sleep. Abstain. Doops | talk 07:24, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, unmaintainable. Radiant_ &gt;|&lt; 13:21, July 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, but if and only if the following is done :
 * sub-divide into separate articles by state or by region;
 * change from "chancellors and other leaders" to "highest ranking officials", as most U.S. universities are headed by a president or a dean;
 * change "US" to "U.S.", as it is not an acronym.
 * -- BD2412 talk 14:38, July 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Contains useful links and bound to improve over time (and I mean years; it bemuses me when people say an article must make giant strides during the eyeblink of a vfd debate or we should give up on it). CalJW 15:23, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: useless list. A category would be appropriate. Wile E. Heresiarch 00:11, 18 July 2005 (UTC) Abstain. I don't know what to do with this article. Wile E. Heresiarch 15:48, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unmaintainable and would work better as a category. Kaibabsquirrel 00:58, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I can't think of a remotely plausible reason to delete this article. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 06:42, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep with move to List of American university leaders (currently a redirect to this page). A category, as noted, wouldn't cut it. Christopher Parham (talk) 17:38, 2005 July 18 (UTC)

Important Notice to all who suggest that this page would work better as a category: please explain how. It is not intuitively clear how a two-dimensional list could be represented by a category. That is to say, a one-dimensional list of universities could easily be replaced by a category; but this list is really a table insofar as it associates insitutions with people. How could a category do that? Thank you very much. Doops | talk 03:00, 18 July 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.