Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people considered greatest fighter ever


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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 21:13, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

List of people considered greatest fighter ever

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Apart from the fact that the category name is wrong (where's the "the"?) it seems too WP:POV to be meaningful. Who is allowed to consider a fighter the greatest? How is "fighter" defined? what does "greatest" mean? The list is unmaintainable. Gwernol 03:13, 4 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom Daniel J. Leivick 03:24, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete A perfect example of original research. There is no "authority" that confers this title. --Polaron | Talk 03:39, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. (Closing admin should be sure to remove the link from List of silliest lists ever.)   Buck  ets  ofg  03:41, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom--Velvet elvis81 05:40, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. MER-C 06:55, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete sujective title. I consider that Hong Kong Phooey was the greatest fighter ever, can he go in? Guy (Help!) 14:02, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete the title is subjective and the test will have an inherent POV. TSO1D 15:44, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete even assuming all the entries could be properly sourced, the scope is far too arbitrary.-- danntm T C 22:31, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete POV issues as above Dugwiki 23:19, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per Polaron. Wikipedia isn't some sports governing body that chooses "the greatest fighters of all time". Quack 688 07:15, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per all. This may not be the place to discuss this, but there are a number of "Lists of somethings considered the greatest something ever" that come up for deletion. Some are kept and some are deleted when they're all equally subjective.Pianoshootist 01:52, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment - That's a fair question. The way I see it, if an external source makes the claim "Joe was the greatest fighter ever", we can mention that claim somewhere on Wikipedia. That's not OR, as it's not the original thoughts of the Wikipedia editor. It's just reporting on speculation that's been published. What we can't do is say ourselves, "Based on Joe's stats, he could be considered the greatest fighter ever" - and that's exactly what this article does. Quack 688 02:56, 9 January 2007 (UTC)


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