Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of dependent territory leaders in the year 2017


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The result was redirect to List of governors of dependent territories in the 21st century. czar 22:04, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

List of dependent territory leaders in the year 2017

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Do we really need lists like this for every year? According to WP:NOTDIRECTORY, we do not.

I'm also unconvinced that WP:LISTN is met: in a WP:GNG fashion. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 20:41, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

Firstly I don’t understand why you say “we do not” It is your opinion not the opinion of a group. Secondly they are a lot of list by year. I find List of elections by year, list of country by year and more others, Why a list of dependent territory leaders is not necessary? Concerning independent reliable sources. Why www.rulers.org and www. worldstatesmen.org are not independent and reliable sources? I understand if someone is not interested in archontology. If you are not it is no problem. But they are other persons whom are. And you don’t hold absolute truth Bogdan Uleia (talk)


 * The fact that other similar articles exist is not relevant to deletion discussions. Also, in the sources you give, you're not showing that the list topic has been discussed as a distinct set: you've posted two links to databases, which might or might not be able to give the lists being discussed here as a database extract, but which certainly don't feature them as a topic. --Slashme (talk) 08:29, 10 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Comment I'm including List_of_dependent_territory_leaders_in_the_year_2016 in this discussion. --Slashme (talk) 08:29, 10 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete this and similar lists: a list per decade is plenty. Maintaining a list of dependent territory leaders, a list of foreign ministers per year, a list of colonial governors per year etc. etc. like Bogdan is doing, is absolutely the kind of indiscriminate collection of data that should be moved to Wikidata and treated in summary form on Wikipedia. --Slashme (talk) 08:29, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Redirect to List of territorial governors in the 21st century as duplicate content. Would not be opposed to separating that into List of territorial governors in the 2000s and List of territorial governors in the 2010s for navigational ease. I have no general objection to these types of lists – world leaders are noteworthy (and popular) enough to justify duplicating existing databases to some extent.  IgnorantArmies  (talk)  12:02, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Kurykh (talk) 01:12, 18 February 2017 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Kurykh (talk) 19:31, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:20, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
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 * Redirect to List of territorial governors in the 21st century, content fork.  Sandstein   18:44, 6 March 2017 (UTC)


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