Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of colonial governors in 1872


 * 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   keep. (non-admin closure) Tim Song (talk) 23:57, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

List of colonial governors in 1872

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Contested prod. In the 5½ years this article has been here, there has only been the one redlinked name. Not a single listing has been either added or removed. And no article about the single entry has ever been written. DarkAudit (talk) 00:47, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep - The problem is bigger than this one article. As listed here, Colonial governors by year, there are lists of colonial governors for every year from 1575 to present. Many of the others, for example most of the others in the 1870s, have no more content than this one does. Somebody went to a lot of work to set up all these lists. I don't see the point of randomly deleting one here and there. --MelanieN (talk) 03:46, 16 November 2009 (UTC)MelanieN
 * Keep Certainly a notable topic, neglect is not a good enough reason to delete an article. I can add the governors of the Australian colonies right now. How 'bout popping a few cleanup tags in there, or assigning the article to relevant WikiProjects? I'll do that too. There's plenty of people who can help fix up articles like this, it's just a matter of letting them know about it. I guess AfD is one way of letting people know... --Canley (talk) 04:40, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep The List of state leaders by year project was one of Wikipedia's greatest successes, and has been taken back to ancient times. Although these are incomplete, I think that these can receive the same treatment that made state leaders work.  Mandsford (talk) 18:36, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep - there's 5 more listings now. Recommend early close, as nominator's concern has been addressed.--Unionhawk Talk E-mail Review 01:37, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. The issue here is with how to organise our content, not with whether any content should be deleted. Maybe it would be better to have articles on timelines of colonial governors split by century or decade, but that is an editing decision that should be made for this series of articles as a whole rather than by picking off individual articles for deletion. Phil Bridger (talk) 21:15, 18 November 2009 (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.