Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of films about assasins


 * 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. - Mailer Diablo 19:37, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

List of films about assasins

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Subjective mispelled listcruft. Danny Lilithborne 01:27, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Tevildo 01:31, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep Just as notable as the other film lists out there. The list needs time to be populated by other films. The list was only created today, and has time to be fixed up. If it is decided to be kept, it can be moved to its proper spelling. --Nehrams2020 01:36, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment This !vote just makes me think that we ought to AfD all the other lists as well.--Anthony.bradbury 16:39, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment It looks like this list is going to be deleted anyway, and I only voted the way I did as I had just stumbled over the list and figured it needed time to be populated. I left a note on its talk page before it was nominated for deletion, asking for guidelines to be set to verify what films would be included within the list. With its current title, its obvious its vague (including the improper spelling). However, the other film lists out there should not be merely deleted since categories can "easily" replace them. Lists are able to include more information, easier to sort through, and can be easier to find, instead of going through several pages of categories. There are many film lists that are well-established and populated, however, there are other lists that are just like this one. Wikipedia is for people to contribute, and lists need to be updated just as articles are.--Nehrams2020 05:14, 8 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete. It's entirely subjective what a film is about. -Amarkov blahedits 02:11, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. MER-C 02:58, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, easily covered by a category (if such a category were ever deemed necessary, if it doesn't exist already). Other film lists are probably ripe to be deleted too. Axem Titanium 03:12, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Deleet What about...JFK? What about...Elmer Fudd?  What...is the point of this list??? Wavy G 04:58, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Most of the other film lists out there, like this one, are indiscrimininate lists of information which do not belong in an encyclopedia. --Metropolitan90 05:05, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete - Lists should always include unambiguous statements of membership criteria based on definitions made by reputable sources. See Wikipedia:Lists.  There does not seem to be a way to identify what is included in this list. Plot summaries containing "assassin" seems too broad.  List of films having an assassin as the lead character might work if there were a way to determine whether a character is the lead character.  List of notable films about notable, non-fiction assassins might work.  A problem here is that assassins by definition kill notable people and there may be a blur between whether it is the assassin that is notable or only their target being notable.  Then there is the problem with clearly notable assassins, such as Lee Harvey Oswald.  Of those movies whose plot contains references to Lee Harvey Oswald and titles contains a reference to Lee Harvey Oswald, how do you decide which movies to include in the list and which to exclude?  Do student film titles about Lee Harvey Oswald get added to the list?  Weak My deletion reasoning is weak because (i) Wikipedia has lists of films about capital punishment, disability, extraterrestrials, hobos and freighthopping, independent body parts, mathematicians, outer space, possessed body parts, possessed inanimate objects, possessed or sentient inanimate objects, space, and suicide.  (ii) Wikipedia has lists of films based on comic strips, pomes, and video games.  (iii) Wikipedia has lists of films featuring  independent body parts,  mental illness, and Mini cars.  (iv) Then there are List of punk films, List of Skinhead films, List of films by gory death scene, List of films that most frequently use the word "fuck", List of films with a twist ending, List of gangster films, and List of Mafia movies.  Some of these have survived AfD (some more than once), but they all seem subjective. -- Jreferee 08:31, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Use cats. Lists suck. Here is one good reason they suck. Someone creates this list, and enthusiastically populates it with films that could be considered to be about "assasins". Great. Six months from now, that person has given up Wikipedia and no one is maintaining the list. So it's a list of films that could be considered to be about "assasins" as of Januaryish 2007. Ho hum. Grace Note 08:34, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete redundant and inadequately defined list per above. The article creator's edit history would indicate that the article was created to promote a thus-far-nonexistent film called Classified. Doczilla 08:59, 7 January 2007 (UTC) P.S. THE CATEGORY NAME IS MISSPELLED!!! Doczilla 04:53, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per above  Buck  ets  ofg  14:55, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, subjective and arbitrary list created for promotional purposes. Demiurge 16:31, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete A trivial, short and essentially useless list containing only three films. Wholly non-encyclopedic, and obviously created for some purpose other than for adding to the body of knowledge contained in the encyclopedia.--Anthony.bradbury 16:37, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete &mdash; there is already a better list of films embedded in Assassin (disambiguation) ➥the Epopt 17:16, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. —dima/s-ko/ 19:15, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Move to list of deleted cruft. This comes close to qualifying for speedy deletion under csd a1.  I agree with several comments above that many (if not most) lists can be better handled as categories.  -- RoySmith (talk) 22:52, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. --Meno25 23:45, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. --Duke of Duchess Street 00:22, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete this will obviously end up being list cruft. Article is too bare to offer anything at the moment either.¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk)  00:31, 8 January 2007 (UTC)


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