Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of living Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete. ✗ plicit  13:03, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

List of living Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients
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Deleted back in 2015, with concerns about whether or not it had any use, since the award was discontinued in 1945. Now, 6 years later those concerns apply even more, and frankly I'm wondering if the current list with one entry might be comprehensive. -- Asartea   Talk  &#124;  Contribs  12:57, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
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 * Delete This list is one that will soon have nothing to list and, considering the amount of other List of Knight's Cross recipients, entirely superfluous. – ♠Vami _IV†♠  13:02, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per concerns raisesd in nomination. Roniius  talk to me 17:36, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. I can't see the point of having a separate article which is a list of living people (person?) which is intended to eventually dwindle down to zero people. Besides that, there are no sources provided. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 18:58, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 21:35, 10 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete. I'm skeptical of the entire Category:Lists of living people. Wikipedia is not an almanac and we shouldn't be maintaining lists that require constant ongoing maintenance, especially where such maintenance is likely to rely on primary sources. pburka (talk) 22:21, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete on principle, this is not an almanac and I don't think these living people lists that have to be updated constantly as people die are encyclopaedic. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 09:20, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete completely pointless like all Category:Lists of living people. Mztourist (talk) 10:13, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete list serves no purpose and soon will not even be populated. Zawed (talk) 09:29, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. While WP:NOTPAPER says that we can certainly have things that are more up-to-date than printed encyclopaedias, like the things in Category:Lists of living people (List of living cardinals is something we clearly should have and keep updated), a list with a single entry is utterly pointless. Wherever you would link to this list, just mention the one member instead. —Kusma (talk) 16:30, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
 * We shouldn't have a List of living cardinals, either. We should have a List of cardinals which includes only *current* cardinals, since it's a notable office. There's no reason to include the three living, former cardinals in the list. pburka (talk) 21:48, 16 July 2021 (UTC)
 * My point is mostly that many lists require constant updates, and that this is fine. I'll still breathe a sigh of relief when List of members of the 19th Bundestag will finally stop requiring updates in about two months (it probably isn't fully up to date now). For the cardinals, the update problem doesn't massively differ between the current and your suggested scope of the article. —Kusma (talk) 23:07, 16 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Indeed. Since cardinal is almost always an appointment for life the difference in scope in that case is miniscule. pburka (talk) 23:11, 16 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete A list of living recipients of an award which has been decommissioned for years is useless.Jackattack1597 (talk) 11:28, 17 July 2021 (UTC)


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