Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people who became famous for surviving a deadly event

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was - kept - SimonP 13:45, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)

List of people who became famous for surviving a deadly event
Somesortofcruft. Silly breakdown of articles. RickK 00:36, Mar 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete list-cruft?--nixie 03:12, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. POV-bait. -- Brhaspati (talkcontribs) 04:49, 2005 Mar 16 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. Another curious list that might be of interest or use to some folks; mostly harmless. -- Infrogmation 05:17, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong keep. Wikipedia needs more interesting articles like this - not less.--Gene_poole 05:30, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Kinda interesting. DaveTheRed 05:56, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, expand. I would suggest also a change of name - perhaps List of famous survivors? Megan1967 06:01, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. If someone becomes notable because they survived stuff like this, then this should also stay. Be consistent. Also just interesting to read and research. -- Riffsyphon1024 06:03, Mar 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Very weak keep. -Sean Curtin 06:31, Mar 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: The title is oxymoronic. How does one survive a "deadly event"? If you survive it's not deadly, is it? Neutralitytalk 06:32, Mar 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Agreed, but it should be kept in one form or another, moved to List of people famous for surviving what is widely considered to be a deadly event perhaps? —Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 06:50, 2005 Mar 16 (UTC)
 * How about List of people famous for surviving a near-fatal event? DaveTheRed 07:52, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, interesting enough, though it should be expanded and renamed. Not sure what to rename it to yet. Mgm|(talk) 09:00, Mar 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Perhaps more suitable to a collection of trivia, and a truly awful name for the article, but if it is kept to only those who genuinely become famous for at least some period for well-known events then it is just about keepable. Average Earthman 09:28, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh yes, how about 'potentially fatal' instead of 'deadly' event? Average Earthman 09:29, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, I agree with Megan1967 however that the title is poor and should be moved to "List of famous survivors". Sjakkalle 12:24, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Ah, but that title seems to refer to winners of the Survivors TV show. Tough one to title :) Radiant_* 15:19, Mar 16, 2005 (UTC) (oh and btw, keep)
 * Need it have 'List' in the title? How about 'Survival against overwhelming odds'?  This is a good start for a fascinating topic, and deserves to be expanded. Keep. Bikeable 16:53, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep but move and redirect to List of famous survivors (unless someone else has a better title). Jonathunder 05:14, 2005 Mar 18 (UTC)
 * Keep, but could do with expansion and possibly a title change, perhaps to List of people famous for having unexpectly survived or something snappier. Thryduulf 23:01, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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