Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of figures in nationalism


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The result was delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Liz Read! Talk! 19:58, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

List of figures in nationalism

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Semi-procedural nomination. A recent attempt to nominate this with the rationale Absolutely unclear arbitrary list of politicians (mainly dictators) and philosophers. Neither the understanding of the term nationalism is explained, nor the criteria according to which the people are selected. In theory, almost any 19th-century politician could be listed here. was misfiled.

I do not see any way to "clean up" this list through editing. Everything from Abraham Lincoln to the Viet Cong is listed. But even after obvious cruft is removed, the only selection criteria appears to be "a politician from a nation", which is too vague to be meaningful.

The hundreds of Category:Nationalists subcategories cover a similar topic in a more approachable way; the page was spun out from Nationalism many years ago. I don't see a unilateral blank-and-redirect to either as being reasonable, but would not be opposed to consensus doing such a redirect. Walt Yoder (talk) 20:13, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. Walt Yoder (talk) 20:13, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete as an arbitrary collection of names rather than a valid list. Mccapra (talk) 21:14, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete Arbitrary and unclear list of names without any precise or meaningful selection criteria, as noted above. Mooonswimmer 01:14, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
 * The history of this article shows how it grew out of an old version of nationalism  in 2005, in a good-faith split. The intent was surely not to end up where it is now, but given the way it grew, I think the history would not be helpful in making this usable list. So, delete without prejudice toward a new article under this or a similar title being created in a better form.  &mdash;siro&chi;o 06:42, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete per vague scope. Clarityfiend (talk) 12:08, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete without prejudice as per . As it is, the article is not useful and has over-broad and utterly subjective criteria. Cheers, Last1in (talk) 19:03, 9 August 2023 (UTC)


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