Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of leaders of British regions and territories


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The result was   delete.  MBisanz  talk 03:01, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

List of leaders of British regions and territories

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Finishing unfinished nom for Nuttah. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP) 18:36, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
 * OK, the nomination. This a a prod that has been contested without a reason given. This is a random collection that ranges from virtually independent nations with their elected leaders to QUANGOS with their appointed heads. Of these very many are neither a region or a territory, and even if they were these two entities are massively different in scope. Essentially, a random and unencyclopaedic agglomeration of facts. As nominator I say delete. Nuttah (talk) 19:01, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:IINFO and WP:SYNTH. See also Listcruft. --Mais oui! (talk) 19:14, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Another randomly assembled hodgepodge list. Ecoleetage (talk) 20:03, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep but trim. The heads of government of British Overseas Territorys is clearly a notable, encyclopedic topic, and such a list would be useful.  I don't see much point in including regional leaders, though.  At the very least, it should be a separate list.  And speaking as a resident of the West Midlands, I didn't even know we had a regional assembly... JulesH (talk) 21:55, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete more unmaintainable listcruft with vague inclusion criteria. Trusilver  23:28, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Split I'm assuming that there are leaders for most governments, even rather powerless devolved governments in England and Scotland; as such, they would pass WP:POLITICIAN, and would be notable: having a list of them would be rather analogous to List of current United States governors. Meanwhile, all leaders of colonies/dependent territories/etc. are notable by dint of being those leaders, and having a list of them would be highly useful as well as being in line with established policy.  Nyttend (talk) 05:38, 6 December 2008 (UTC)


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