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


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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 09:33, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

List of people on the postage stamps of Uruguay

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Fails WP:LISTN. Largely abandoned, incorrect (e.g. the first stamp for Suarez is given as 1896, while it appeared in 1881), incomplete. Fram (talk) 08:36, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Lists of people and Uruguay. Fram (talk) 08:36, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete as prodder. Same faults as all the other "lists of people on the postage stamps of X" list, as Fram elaborated on. No idea why this was deprodded. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 15:29, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete The fact that we would have a list that states it is complete through 1960 is just plain insulting. If we are going to do something we should do it right. A list that is 62 years old is not doing things right. We do not have the multiple reliable sources that discuss this topic as a group to justify having this article. We are now down to only 120 of the 251 nations and territories of the world having such articles, and way too many (vritually all of them) are plagued by the same problems we see here. I am not convinced that anyone has ever convincingly argued why this is a notable topic and not List of animals on the postage stamps of Uruguay or List of buildings on the postage stamps of Uruguay. If people appearing on postage stamps of Uruguay has been discussed meaninfully in reliable sources we can say somethign about that in Postage stamps and postal history of Uruguay. I see no reason to have this article at all.John Pack Lambert (talk) 17:52, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Even that article has now had a notice of giving undue weight to some topics for about 9 years. There is a lot of ultra niche coverage of philately in Wikipedia. Including way too many articles that say essentially "John Brown (1902-1994) was an American philatelist. He signed the role of distinguished philatelists in 1970 " And that is the whole article, one sentence saying he was recognized by a group, sourced to the website of the group that gave the recognition. These are clearly not encyclopedic articles, especially in a general encyclopedia. These may in fact be notable philatelists, but we would need more sources showing broad coverage to demonstrate such. On the other hand, some of these people may in fact be notable for other things, but it is being entirely ignored. I have seen cases where an article on an Olympain neglected to mention they were in the national legislature of Tanzania, a country that currently has over 50 million people, to know that one problem with some stub biographies is that they focus too much on only one aspect of a person's life. Sports and politics are sometimes treated as the only thing that matters, even if a person was more notable for other endevors than their politcal contributions.John Pack Lambert (talk) 17:55, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete, all of these are unmaintained and unmaintainable, failing WP:LISTN. Jacona (talk) 13:56, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. This is something for another kind of project, outside of Wikipedia. BD2412  T 21:48, 30 May 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.