Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people killed by mosquitoes


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The result was   delete. Well, delete and add to User:Hersfold/Weird Stuff, anyway... Hers fold  (t/a/c) 00:27, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

List of people killed by mosquitoes

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Unlikely to ever be complete. Most people "killed by mosquitoes" actually die of something else. &mdash; G716  &lt;T·C&gt; 04:49, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
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 * Delete quite WP:FREAKY. I'm yet to see a death certificate which gives cause of death "mosquitoes". yes there are mosquito related illnesses but they are various. LibStar (talk) 05:07, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Hah, this is a hoax article. Anyways, speedy delete imo. Fuzbaby (talk) 05:46, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Mosquitoes don't kill people... No offense, but this is nothing short of ridiculous.  C h a m a l  talk 07:24, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 *  Speedy delete Obvious hoax. "It is estimated that mosquitoes have killed half the people who have ever lived." As much as I want there to be a real, sourced article called List of people killed by mosquitos...
 * Delete After reading the sources, it's clear this isn't a hoax - bad call on my part. But even though many people may be killed by disease spread by mosquito, I'm not sure it would be right to say they're killed by mosquitoes, and perhaps more importantly, I don't think there will be many people who are notable who have been killed by malaria, etc. We'd have to have a list of billions of people. Conical Johnson (talk) 08:00, 28 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep on a world-wide basis, given malaria and other diseases they probably have. For the notable people in wikipedia, given our geographic bias, it will be a much smaller proportion. A preliminary check in our index gives 1420 candidates. I would suggest revising the scope to just malaria, and considering the other diseases separately. The main ones are yellow fever, filariasis,  epidemic polyarthritis, Rift Valley fever, Ross River Fever, St. Louis encephalitis, West Nile virus (WNV), Japanese encephalitis, La Crosse encephalitis, dengue fever, and a few others. We can do them separately--they will be smaller lists.DGG (talk) 08:16, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * then we should have List of people killed by malaria and separate articles for each disease, as this is easily verifiable by a death certificate. no doctor would write "killed by mosquitoes". LibStar (talk) 12:40, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I aggree with you--this should lead to such lists. Agreed, its not much of a start but I'm glad you agree with me on the principle of the sort of lists that is appropriate. DGG (talk) 00:24, 29 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete. This is another one of those lists we just don't need. This information could easily be covered under the article about mosquitoes or the diseases without repeating it in this list. Niteshift36 (talk) 08:50, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Funny choice of title (are most bubonic plague victims going to be on a list of "People killed by fleas"?). Unlikely ever to be something we need. --Folantin (talk) 09:16, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete to the best of my knowledge (which is profesionally appropriate) no-one has ever been killed by a mosquito. Killed by diseases born by mosquitos - malaria, yellow fever, and a wide variety of rarer diseases, yes. (See comment above by DGG). But saying they were killed by mosquitos is like saying that people dying of swine flu were killed by pigs! --Anthony.bradbury"talk" 12:35, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. The name is inappropriate and we don't need a list anyway. Categories called something like "Malaria victims" and "Yellow Fever victims" might be acceptable. --DanielRigal (talk) 12:54, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
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 * Comment Wikipedia actually has a number of articles about death from animal attacks (Category:Deaths due to animal attacks), but, surprisingly, none about death from an insect bite or sting. My suggestion to the author would be to refer to the many many names from Category:Deaths from malaria and move this to a more sensible title.  As others have pointed out, you just don't see anybody keel over dead from a mosquito bite, although they may die from an illness carried by a mosquito.  In this case, the "list" is literally an army of one.  I'm going to spoil the ending-- it was Rupert Brooke, the English poet.  Mandsford (talk) 15:24, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * ...and don't forget this. --Folantin (talk) 15:58, 28 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete This is something so ridiculous I would have thought even the DGG would be moved to vote delete. Perhaps he hadn't considered Anthony.bradbury's apposite comment. Eusebeus (talk) 21:32, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak keep I can't decide how much merit there would be in having the list, but my gut says that this could become informative and poignant. While caregorizing the various mosquito-borne illnesses, plus non-specific infections at the bite site might be enough as a category of mosquito-related deaths. With strict inclusion criteria and a good base of entries (I added Clara Maass just to give it a fighting chance) and broke into headings based on cause of death, this could become a convenient resource. I'm not optimistic enough to do much more than throw a name or two (if I think of a second well-deserving name) and propose an organizational schema. I do not have sufficient conviction to add a  tag as it could easily grow too big to be useful. The number of deaths related to mosquitoes warrants a well-reasoned discussion. The discussion should center on the merit of the list existing since the title can always be changed. Novangelis (talk) 02:09, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per what everyone else is saying- people die of diseases that are transmitted by the mosquitoes, the mosquitoes themselves have nothing to do with it- the list is arbitrary (it will in fact include people who have died of many different diseases though I assume malaria is the most common one) and will never be complete. Now, lists of people killed by certain diseases might be slightly better (though that is best represented by the category linked above). If this article was changed to something more encyclopedic like "Mosquito disease transmission" or "Human deaths from mosquito bites" and written with some content (the sources found in the current list are a good start) instead of just a list (although certain notable deaths can certainly be listed), it would be much more encyclopedic. The DominatorTalkEdits 07:28, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete, the idea of the list People killed by sneezes shows you how ridiculous this classification is. Tim Vickers (talk) 00:13, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - Unneeded list. \ Backslash Forwardslash / {talk} 14:18, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
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