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


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The result was delete. RL0919 (talk) 17:42, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

List of people on the postage stamps of South Africa

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The billionth one of these infernal "list of people on the postage stamps of X". No sources, no assertation of this being a valid topic per WP:SALAT, no maintenance, no relevance. Far too many of these are closing as "delete", showing a clear consensus that this is not a suitable topic for a list. Prod contested. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 17:24, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Lists of people and South Africa. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 17:24, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete This article is a mess. I remain unconvinced the topic meets inclusion criteria at all. If we absolutely must include it, we need to organize by year, not by alphabet. South Africa has such a huge change in government in the early 1990s that seeing any continuity before and after that makes no sense. However as said there are no sources, this artice has existed for over 17 years with no sources, articles should not exist over 17 days without sources, and to justify a list we need reliable sources that treat the subject of a list as a topic, not just sources from which the facts of a list can be extracted. Not everything that can be organized into a list needs to be. I think one issue is some editors see these lists as a way to monitor which of these people have articles, lists on Wikipedia are not meant for monitoring content creation, they are meant to group together things that people see as important groupings, and I see no evidence that people on postage stmaps count as such.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:01, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete because "People on the postage stamps of South Africa" does not appear to meet WP:NLIST; and additionally because this would be a WP:BADIDEA 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 is true, and despite it possibly being interesting to a limited number of dedicated enthusiasts. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 21:55, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete - Another stamp-related list that has no sources discussing the topic as a group or set, failing WP:LISTN. Rorshacma (talk) 23:27, 6 June 2022 (UTC)


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