Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people against the Iraq War


 * 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  d elete. - Mailer Diablo 16:03, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

List of people against the Iraq War

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Delete - the wrong template was put up - there is a fine (like country sized) line between lists (which are non-encyclopedic) and patent nonsense (which would be if he said, Shitty McFuck is against the Iraq War) - but either way, violating wikipedia standards.-- DanielFolsom T|C|U 04:01, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * However, this could be a decent category, and it looks like that was what the creator was going for ...-- DanielFolsom T|C|U 04:02, 30 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Comment - this AFD was originally created incorrectly as an MFD. I have moved it here. --BigDT 05:55, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment Clearly overly broad and poorly defined. Is there any way to reasonably reform this list? JChap2007 06:28, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Aren't list in general unencylopedic, as mentioned above I think that the only alternative to deletion would be a category.-- DanielFolsom T|C|U 07:07, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * See List of lists JChap2007 07:13, 30 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletions.   -- SkierRMH 07:03, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * A)The first and only category I looked at had about 12 entries, all but 2 had been deleted - but either way, I stand corrected. But in an instance like this when a category can be used (I mean really all this list is doing is grouping people together) - WHY NOT use a category?-- DanielFolsom T|C|U 07:24, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Especially since categories are less targeted by vandals-- DanielFolsom T|C|U 07:25, 30 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete Sigh, another tendentious list that has no sources at all. Aside from any other merits of this article in the abstract, it is completely unencyclopedic as the ambiguity of the word "people" renders the list inevitably arbitrary and incomplete. Allon Fambrizzi 08:31, 30 January 2007 (UTC)Allon Fambrizzi
 * Delete - I usually don't lists, but this one is going too far. Too broad. (PS: WP:V issues should be handled easily through soft references (i.e., through wikilinks). Part Deux 10:24, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Would encompass an unreasonably large number of people, even if limited to those already included in Wikipedia. Saligron 11:43, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete unnecessarily POV list which vastly oversimplifies the situation. --Canley 12:01, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - WP:NOT#INDICRMINATE, irretrievably POV listcruft. Moreschi Deletion! 20:34, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - how does one define opposition to the war? How does one define person in the case of inclusion here? Who checks the tickets of those wanting to get on the list? Unmaintainable and far too broad. Tony Fox (arf!) 21:11, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Things aren't as simple as "for the Iraq war" or "against the Iraq war"; Wikipedia is not the Bush administration. Krimpet 08:58, 31 January 2007 (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.