Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people on the postage stamps of the United Arab Emirates


 * 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. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 21:53, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

List of people on the postage stamps of the United Arab Emirates

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Still completely unsourced and un-maintained. Still no proof that this is a notable topic per WP:SALAT. Prod contested with a WP:SOFIXIT rationale, but again, there's no proof that this can be fixed. Ping and  Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 15:08, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Lists of people and United Arab Emirates. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 15:08, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. This is something for another kind of project, outside of Wikipedia. BD2412  T 21:49, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete Wikipedia is not Wikia. Not everything that one can create a list on is justified in creating a list of. We need multiple reliable sources that treate the subject with significant coverage and indepth. That someone once published a catalog that listed something is not enough to justify an article on it. I am sure I can also find catalog entries that tell me which animals have been portrayed on stamps by which country, but that would not justify a list of that. To preserve these articles we would need reliable sources that show that people being portrayed on postage stamps is a topic that has received significant indepth coverage, and that has not been shown. We would need it for each country on which we had a list.John Pack Lambert (talk) 12:55, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete No evidence whatsoever exists that this meets 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) 15:50, 3 June 2022 (UTC)


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