Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people who have self-identified to an anthropological category


 * 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 of the debate was delete.  Sango  123   18:55, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

List of people who have self-identified to an anthropological category
This list is not encyclopaedic. If this list is taken to its furthest extreme---i.e., if it becomes what it truly claims to be, a literal list of people who have identified themselves as "American," or "French," or "French-Canadian," etc., it would be completely unwieldy. My suspicion, though, is that it will not amount to much of anything. In any case, how is such a list useful? If the individuals listed are in any way notable or important, mention can (and, one assumes, will) be made in each individual's article as to the "anthropological category" with which they identify. In the meantime, let's delete this list as unencyclopaedic and absurd. Charles 21:56, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I'll give it an Irish-American/French-Canadian/with-a-bit-of-Pennsylvania-Dutch Delete. Of all the list ideas I've ever seen here, this has to be the most unwieldy: "Here are three entries, please add 6 billion more." Fan1967 22:23, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes---"Here are three entries, please add 6 billion more."---this was precisely the impression I had when I first saw the page. He created an article with such a broad topic, and yet only had three entries.  That's just a lack of effort, since anybody would fit this list. ---Charles 03:18, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Obvious Delete as per ridiculousness outlined by above Yonatanh 22:38, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Proto-Indo-European Delete per above. SM247 My Talk  23:08, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Irish-Norwegian-English-American Delete. BuckRose 23:20, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, list of potentially all people ever. Isn't this what we have Categories for? --DaveG12345 01:23, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as a french-canadian, caucasian male, I find the list to be nonsense. Pascal.Tesson 03:05, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, fails Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of info by a wide margin. --Coredesat talk 03:11, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per Coredesat. &mdash;Hanuman Das 05:19, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
 * PIE Delete. —Quarl (talk) 2006-06-29 09:05Z 
 * Anglo-Welsh delete trwy enwebiad. -- GWO
 * German-Polish-English-Scots Irish-Dutch Delete Eluchil404 20:56, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete listcruft. Wikibout-Talk to me! 22:05, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete pretty ridiculous idea for a list. Unmanagable and listcruft. Ydam 04:37, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per all above. --Metropolitan90 07:12, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
 * English-Scottish-Welsh-Norweigan-Swedish-French and quite possibly West African American delete per Fan1967. Grand  master  ka  09:17, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment Assigning individuals to ethnicity categories has been a can of worms on Wikipedia, and this article attempts to help things by limiting entries to verifiable self-identifications. Kurieeto 14:24, 3 July 2006 (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.