Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people on the postage stamps of Lebanon


 * 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. Liz Read! Talk! 06:47, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

List of people on the postage stamps of Lebanon

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Fails WP:LISTN. Unsourced (one source doesn't work and doesn't seem like a reliable source anyway), incomplete (e.g. has a stamp from 2001, but misses the Elias Abu Chabake stamp from the same year), and unloved (26 pageviews over the last 90 days). Fram (talk) 08:26, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Lists of people and Lebanon. Fram (talk) 08:26, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. After all these "list of people on the postage stamps of X" deletion discussions, no one has stepped forth to prove why this is a topic worth covering. While they can be sourced to a stamp catalogue, that doesn't mean they should be if there is no proof of the underlying topic's notability. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 15:17, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. This is something for another kind of project, outside of Wikipedia. BD2412  T 21:47, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete the one source is not reliable and does not back the article as a whole. There really is no justification for this article. It is trivial. There is a deleted picture that shows a postage stamp that had a whole crowd of people on it. It was a painting and so is unclear if all the people were known. In a few US postage stamps they were of a portrait painter, so it shows the portrait painter, and then some random portrait he painted, the subject of which is not particularly notable. Wikipedia is not meant to be an indiscrminate listing of everything, and this includes non-notable people who showed up on postage stamps.John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:14, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep; all available evidence tell us that these people were depicted on stamps because they are important to the history and society of their country. I am not impressed by the rhetorics used by Ten Pound Hammer. He claims that no one has stepped forth, while the truth is that the discussion in Articles for deletion/List of people on the postage stamps of the Faroe Islands and the sources added in List of people on the postage stamps of the Faroe Islands clearly indicates that stamp designs and stamp policies play a significant role in many nations. Bw --Orland (talk) 21:37, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete No evidence whatsoever exists that this does meet WP:NLIST, as already stated: not in this AfD, and not in the article. Otherwise, this and all similar pages fail WP:NOTDIRECTORY (as generally "Simple listings without contextual information showing encyclopedic merit."); and furthermore, because having this is definitively a WP:BADIDEA (as evidenced by the fact people keep citing the existence of these lists as a reason to keep having them even when they fail inclusion criteria), as Wikipedia is not a philatelical catalogue and there is no indication how this kind of page is of any broader encyclopedic significance. An encyclopedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information, even if it is true, and despite it possibly being interesting to a limited number of dedicated philatelical enthusiasts. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 12:28, 3 June 2022 (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.