Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people whose parent died by suicide


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The result was delete. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  13:01, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

List of people whose parent died by suicide

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Arbitrary list criterion. While there are many sources about the general topic of losing a parent or other family member to suicide (see Suicide survivor), I think that it's trivial to list specific people who have had that experience and are Wikipedia-notable for various other reasons. (We also don't and shouldn't have lists of "Spouses of alcoholics", "Relatives of cancer patients" or "People with intellectually disabled siblings", despite the plenitude of sources about these general situations.) Please note that the page creator was blocked as a sockpuppet, and a parallel list of fictional characters he created was deleted at AfD in 2017. Cheers, gnu 57 18:50, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. gnu 57  18:50, 5 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete - on its face. We do not create arbitrary lists just because there is an identifiable characteristic shared by a number of people. Notice that every category does not have a corresponding list; and this does not even have a category as far as I know. ‡ Єl Cid of Valencia  talk  18:59, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Suicide survivor covers the topic, and the list is inappropriate and arbitrary (fairly clearly it is far from comprehensive). power~enwiki ( π,  ν ) 19:10, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Clearly this is an arbitrary list that is inappropriate. Plus, like Power~enwiki says, it's covered in another article perfectly fine anyway. --Adamant1 (talk) 19:30, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete It's an arbitrary list that is not comprehensive. It would have to be "List of people notable by Wikipedia standards whose parent died by suicide" which is a nonstarter. Spudlace (talk) 05:40, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
 * More like "list of people notable by Wikipedia standards whose parents died by suicide who people took note enough to record this fact". If you look at the list, it in parts more clealry approaches "list of children of notable people who committed suicide".John Pack Lambert (talk) 15:22, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete This is just plain a horrible list. This is not really a shared group, especially since some were very old when it applied. In fact, in theory, people could qualify for this list if the parent committed suicide after the person's death, which makes it even less defining.John Pack Lambert (talk) 15:17, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - I completely agree with JPL here Spiderone  16:12, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment, this list is silly, it would be like having a list on US presidents with facial hair ("psssst, excuse me coola, but we have one of those."), oh. Coolabahapple (talk) 07:53, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Hey, that's a pretty legit list. 28 references and all. That said, I think Martin Van Buren with his half mutton chops is a questionable edition. No offense to anyone out there sporting mutton chops. --Adamant1 (talk) 08:25, 9 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete per above. I will echo This is just a horrible list.   // Timothy ::  talk  08:31, 12 November 2020 (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.