Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of heroes (0th nomination)

List of heroes
Note, this starts, This is a list of well-known heroes from its various adaptions. Various adaptations of what? It includes Giordano Bruno and Harry Potter and seems to include fictional heroes, nonfictional heroes, not-particularly-heroic fictional protagonists, etc. It wouldn't be a bad product of a train journey that had outlasted the novel the author had intended to read. It could contain all sorts of people: my own heroes include Barbara Boxer (or what little I know about her), Noam Chomsky, Alan Sokal, James Randi, and Coffy (yes, as played by Pam Grier); yours might just as well be Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Rush Limbaugh, and Bambi. The idea of this page seems pretty daft. -- Hoary 08:40, 2004 Dec 24 (UTC)

Archive-Hide. Take a decision only if participation on this poll exceeds 1.5% of active wikipedia population. (Active population are legitimate users that have cast at least one vote in the last 63 days). Keep this poll active for 11 days then archive it. If the participation threshold is bypassed, implement the best rated poll option regardless the percentage this first poll option got. If the poll decision is not a delete decision, then whatever else the decision should be it should be valid for 3 years then we should un-archive, un-hide the article and reconsider. Iasson 08:48, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * What the hell is that? Anyway Delete this. Grue 09:02, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * A satire on wikipedia's ever more labyrinthine polices, I should imagine... Dan100 10:06, Dec 24, 2004 (UTC)


 * Delete! Even Bin Ladin and Adolf Hitler could be hero for somebody.... wshun 09:38, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Too vague a topic to make an article out of. --Carnildo 09:41, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, and please remember this is VfD not BJAODN Iasson. --fvw *  11:59, 2004 Dec 24 (UTC)
 * Delete. What is the definition of your hero may not be mine. - Mailer Diablo 12:54, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * Delete: Don't forget Ricky Englesias, because he sang, "I can be your hero, baby," and David Bowie, who promised his lover that they could be heroes just for one day when they climb the Berlin Wall. Were the topic straightened out, it would still be a uselessly large list (i.e. list of fictional heroes would be every protagonist of every work, and list of real world heroes would include someone's 4th grade science teacher). Geogre 13:17, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, for a start this article can never be anything but POV. Also it is way way too broad to ever be useful, it could contain everyone who's ever lived. Rje 13:21, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not verifiable. How does anyone decide who is listed? Is there an objective criterion for "hero-ness" that can be established in order to qualify for this list? Recipients of recognized medals and awards for heroism, for example?  Or is it going to be simply a list to which anyone can add their heroes, including every lifeguard at the beach who pulls some kid out of the waves.  --BM 13:58, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Recipients of medals/awards for heroism already have their own lists, such as List of Medal of Honor recipients. --Carnildo 23:17, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * Keep and cleanup. We have a list of villains which I think is good. I think a list of fictional heroes would be more useful than quite many of the lsits that we have here. Jeltz talk  14:25, 2004 Dec 24 (UTC)
 * Delete, unmanageable, would become so immense as to be useless noise. Wyss 00:52, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep if content are reduced to and limited to fiction only. Delete otherwise. -Sean Curtin 01:21, Dec 25, 2004 (UTC)
 * I concur it would be ok if limited to fiction. Wyss 19:42, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * Delete - definitely POV subject, would extend to infinity both in terms of content and potential for edit wars - Skysmith 08:34, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep if reduced to fictional heroes. Delete as POV otherwise. Andris 13:08, Dec 27, 2004 (UTC)
 * Rename to List of fictional heroes and cut out real persons. But keep any semi-legendary types such as Attila the Hun, El Cid, and King Arthur. I'm afraid Stanislav Petrov and Horatio Nelson have to go. Wile E. Heresiarch 06:46, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Ditto --Is Mise le Méas, Irishpunktom 22:40, Dec 29, 2004 (UTC)
 * delete Attila the Hun is a good example of POV problems that will crop up (villain or hero? legendary or not?). It also seems useless. --Eean 06:50, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Elf-friend 10:15, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete - another useless, arbitrary, massively open-ended list. Even the better-defined List of fictional and mythological heroes probably best avoided. And clearly real people will be too controversial to be included in any such list. Rd232 23:50, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)