Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of mixed race Britons


 * 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. postdlf (talk) 01:10, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

List of mixed race Britons

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What exactly is the purpose of this list? If it's to list every mixed-race British person ever (or even only the notable ones), it seems like a bad idea, and more likely to produce edit wars than useful material. I think all these 'List of people by ethnicity' pages are pretty pointless, but this one is particularly problematic, because there's no objective definition of 'mixed race'. A person who one person considers 'mixed race' might be considered 'white' by another person, or 'Asian' or whatever. How much 'non-white' ancestry is required to be considered 'mixed'? How different do your parents' races have to be before you qualify? Are we going to have to bring back blood quantum laws to decide how to classify people? I just can't see any good coming out of this list. Robofish (talk) 20:09, 11 February 2011 (UTC)


 * delete - encourages OR, empty list article, no sources. ·Maunus· ƛ · 20:11, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

The purpose of this article is to list the achievements and actual existance of mixed race peole like me - I know that racists wish to deny our existance but we are here and wish to be known. A mixed race person is defined as somebody with two parents of different races and somebody who self identifies as such. The article has been vandalised by as racist


 * Keep - do let let BNP members dectate wiki policy — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ala.foum (talk • contribs)
 * The list has not been vandalised. Unsourced entries were removed because without sources, we had no idea whether the people listed self-identified as mixed race. Please don't insinuate that people are racists or BNP members based on unfounded allegations of vandalism. Cordless Larry (talk) 09:30, 13 February 2011 (UTC)


 * For what it's worth, I'm not a BNP member - I'm pretty leftwing actually. I know that there are plenty of people who consider themselves mixed-race, and I don't have a problem with describing them as such in their articles. I just think a list is likely to raise problems; as I said, I'm generally against all ethnicity-based lists, but I can see more potential problems with this one than any other. Robofish (talk) 22:23, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. This used to actually be a real list in the sense of having a reasonable number of people on it, but most of the entries were unsourced and moved to the talk page per Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive103. Now there are only six entries, five of whom are siblings of each other. Since nobody is apparently interested in sourcing the list, I don't see much point in keeping it around in this particular condition. Also, I agree with Robofish that there are not objective criteria for determining whether two different ethnicities are part of the same race or not and thus the term "mixed race" is subject to interpretation and potential edit wars. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 23:22, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete I'm not a great fan of such lists. They inevitably lead to edit wars because they do not have a clear scope. What about people of mixed Russia/English ancestry? Do they qualify? What if my great-great-great-great-grandmother was one quarter Indian? Mixed race? Without a very clear standard what "mixed race" actually is, this list will neither ever be complete nor really serve any identifiable purpose. Travelbird (talk) 00:27, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete - Pointless listcruft, high potential for OR and BLP violations. Kuguar03 (talk) 09:02, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete A pointless collection. Regent of the Seatopians (talk) 13:19, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete - LIstcruft and a BLP sourcing nightmare in the making. Pointless.  Carrite (talk) 18:23, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete farcical that it only contains Five Star at the moment. A full list might have been mergeable elsewhere.  List of Black Britons was turned into a redirect.  MLA (talk) 21:25, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. -- JN 466  22:34, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:28, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, and may I suggest something be done with this OR construction (Multiracial_American) too. Bull dog123  20:03, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.