Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of fictional military people


 * 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 Delete. Cbrown1023 23:58, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

List of fictional military people

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I am completing an incomplete nomination. Abstain Iamunknown 19:53, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as nominator - originally part of mass nom at Articles for deletion/List of fictional actors. These are indiscriminate lists drawing largely unrelated articles from a wide variety of genres, difficult if not impossible to maintain and will never aproach completeness. Otto4711 23:42, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete This is indeed an overly broad list, which could include dozens of folks in just a few novels. FrozenPurpleCube 23:51, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Speedy close. This is a relisting and lacks an explanation for deletion. Keep as per extensive discussion at Articles for deletion/List of fictional actors. -- User:Docu
 * The only reason this is a "relisting" is because someone took it upon him/herself to break up an existing nomination. It is disingenuous in the extreme to suggest closure on that basis and quite frankly your cherry-picking the listings you want speedily closed does not speak well of your motivation. The reason for the nomination is right there in my comments as nominator and stating that there is no explanation is just flat out not true. As for the discussion at the previous nom, a number of those voicing opinions called for keep/close only because of the mass nature of the nomination. It's ridiculous to claim that those procedural !votes constitute consensus on every article individually. Otto4711 05:09, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * It may not be a relisting. See this subpage for an explanation &mdash; Iamunknown 05:16, 6 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Speedy close without prejudice. Nominator gives no rationale for this proposal. —Psychonaut 12:43, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy. Just deal with it. --Calton | Talk 15:14, 4 January 2007 (UTC)


 * The nom does give a rationale; see Otto's first post &mdash; Iamunknown 05:16, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep Good list: nothing indescriminate or unmaintainable about it. AndyJones 13:44, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. A text dump of undifferentiated characters -- potentially thosuands -- of an enormous number of genres, of which the only thing they have in common is wearing uniforms: not nationalities, eras, ranks, medium, personality, hair color, height, distinctive features, reason for being in the service, etc. Sounds pretty indiscriminate AND unmaintainable to me. There's this thing called "Categories" which would be more useful... --Calton | Talk 15:14, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per Calton. "Speedy close" arguments are invalid per WP:CSK and WP:NOT a democracy.  &gt; R a d i a n t &lt;  15:55, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per Calton; categorising loses no information. Angus McLellan (Talk) 21:38, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * keep as good and as useful as all the others. In this case a notably important list although on the long side..DGG 03:54, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per Calton. This would be unyielding. --maclean 06:48, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per Calton. Overbroad, indescriminant, etc.  Eluchil404 11:23, 11 January 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.