Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of longest-ruling non-royal national leaders since 1900


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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 01:33, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

List of longest-ruling non-royal national leaders since 1900

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Starting with the dubiousness with the page title, I find the list to be WP:OR. Article says Castro ruled for "52 years, 101 days", which is not supported by the irrelevant source and enough sources state that Castro ruled only for 32 years. The entry for Chiang Kai-shek is also WP:OR since it combines his rule of China and Taiwan and presents him as 2nd longest-ruling leader. Then there is a name like Muammar Gaddafi who was not even a head of state for his country but only colonel of his military. Éamon de Valera is claimed here to have ruled for "38 years" which cannot be supported by any sources. Kim Il-sung ranks at no.3 yet he is widely considered as the longest-serving ruler by reliable sources.

Some names are better described as de facto rulers, which clearly fails to serve the purpose of the list that mainly tries to provide the list of longest-serving head of states. Given the lack of established criteria, it appears that anyone can be added whoever has been a politician for more than 20 years.

Sources similarly show the difference between descriptions for these leaders and the duration of their rule. Lists are generally for maintaining the non-disputed information or the information that reflects the main articles, but these lists are generally used by those editors in general who have failed to get their POV on the main article.

In simple words, this list is a WP:LISTCRUFT and WP:OR. desmay (talk) 18:33, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
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 * Delete per nom and WP:LISTCRUFT and WP:OR as the concept of the list is dubious.  M L talk 08:14, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete as I agree with User:My Lord, the article of this list is uncertain due to WP:OR. Sheldybett (talk) 01:38, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete - This is a fairly bizarre list article for Wikipedia, but if better sources were included, I think it would make a better article. Foxnpichu (talk) 20:39, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per all. John M Wolfson (talk) 00:53, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per previous. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:241:301:8ccf:dd39:56d6:6bf7:bd21 (talk) 16:22, 6 May 2019 (UTC)


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