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


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The result was delete. North America1000 16:00, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

List of people on the postage stamps of Turkmenistan

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This is terrible. I have already nominated a number of these "lists of people on postage stamps" articles, including one that had been completely empty since 2008. I thought that was the worst, but I'm afraid that I was mistaken.

Since its inception as an unsourced list in 2010, this page has "listed" one person, who appeared on a stamp in 1991. Too bad that the first stamp in Turkmenistan only appeared in ... 1992 (and the first person to appear on a Turkmen stamp was not the founder of Pakistan, duh).

Even if this had been a factually correct list, it would fail WP:LISTN as a topic which hasn't received significant attention as a group. As it stands, it is simply a monument to the utter ridiculousness of most of these lists and belies all "but readers want it" claims. Luckily only 24 people (or webscrapers or so) have seen this page in the last 90 days. Fram (talk) 15:20, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Lists of people and Turkmenistan. Fram (talk) 15:20, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete one person does not a list make. We really need to cut back of the philatelycruft in Wikipedia.John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:11, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete possibly speedy, only one item that doesn't even appear to be correct Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 16:18, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
 * It is correct actually, Turkmenisan issued a stamp for Jinnah in December 2001, as a couple countries did for his 125th birthday. I don't have any problem with losing the one-element list, it looks like an enthusiast was hoping for stone soup. Stan (talk) 18:10, 12 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Now I'm curious: which of these lists was completely empty? Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 16:24, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Articles for deletion/List of people on the postage stamps of Portuguese colonies! Fram (talk) 07:13, 13 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete, Don't see any use for this title. Alex-h (talk) 16:56, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete, don't see any sources, don't know if we'd need the article even then. Jacona (talk) 18:53, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete as pointless non-list. Stifle (talk) 09:05, 19 May 2022 (UTC)


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