Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people associated with World War I


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The result was delete. The Bushranger One ping only 05:36, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

List of people associated with World War I

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After working on this list, it occurred to me that it's way too indiscriminate, especially with such a vague criterion, failing WP:SALAT. Even broken down by country, there have got to be unmanageable numbers of entries. Clarityfiend (talk) 11:35, 22 November 2017 (UTC) Clarityfiend (talk) 11:35, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete -- Here is my personal standard: No published list inclusion criteria, no list. I might write an essay. Rhadow (talk) 12:43, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
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 * Redirect to Category:People of World War I, which is meant to be a nearly indiscriminate parent category for anyone associated with the First World War. Patar knight - chat/contributions 16:20, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. While I disagree with Rhadow in that the inclusion criteria here is pretty clear - this list, if fully populated by notable people only, would be huge. It is much better served by a category - and guess what? there are cats for this - as may be seen when navigating Category:World War I by country, e.g. Category:Australian military personnel of World War I and Category:British military personnel of World War I. Or navigated Category:People of World War I.Icewhiz (talk) 16:25, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete and or redirect to Category:People of World War I per Patar knight's suggestion. This list is way too vague on who actually qualifies as a notable person who is associated with World War I. I think the People of World War I category covers this topic better and without the notability restriction. 98.209.191.37 (talk) 17:19, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is such a broad criteria (and arguably vague - for example does someone who was a child at the time, but lost a parent or sibling due to the conflict count as person associated with World War One?), that it could end up thousands of names and it is difficult to see what use it would be. I concur that categories are a better way to help people search for individuals involved in the Great War. Dunarc (talk) 19:54, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
 * comment I would have imagined there would be a lot more entries on the list. It's actually not that long right now.Egaoblai (talk) 02:26, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. List concept is far too broad and borders on WP:NOTINDISCRIMINATE. Ajf773 (talk) 04:07, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete because it is simply too broad. Lepricavark (talk) 14:14, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. AustralianRupert (talk) 11:25, 24 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete. This could be a reasonable List of lists, but the current scope is unmanageably broad. Pburka (talk) 15:51, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete How many million would it take to complete this list? -- Iazyges   Consermonor   Opus meum  16:57, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete Even restricted to notable people, this is unmanageable. Category:People of World War I should suffice.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  23:07, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete It's almost impossible to maintain. There are two men missing from the U.S. section who had been awarded the MoH for the Indian Wars (admittedly for Battle of Wounded Knee).-- Georgia Army Vet  Contribs  Talk  16:28, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete - for lists of lists we have things like: Category:World War I-related lists and Lists of World War I topics. For individuals, we have the category already mentioned. I don't think it makes sense to redirect to the category. Smmurphy(Talk) 02:40, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete -- This is potentially a list almost without limit. What we have in it so far is probably the personal selection of one or more editors, but there will be dozens of articles on generals, holders of gallantry medals, air aces, inventors, civil servants, every serving politician in the Parliaments of all combatants, medical personnel of the armed forces, ...  Where do we end?  Peterkingiron (talk) 16:02, 26 November 2017 (UTC)


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