Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people with a double-barrelled name

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The result of the debate was DELETE. Postdlf 06:54, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

List of people with a double-barrelled name
Silly, unencyclopedic, unmaintainable, listcruft. Ask yourself - 'who would look up this article and for what purpose?' --Doc (?) 12:24, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep! Obviously I have an interest here, as I created this thing, but allow me to vote nonetheless. I have asked myself this question. The answer, *I* would look up this article, to find people with a double-barreled name! You see, if you ask a silly person about a silly article, you get a silly answer. Brequinda 12:27, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per Doc Glasgow. No-one is going to look this up and the names are UK-skewed anyway (two contestants from present series of Big Brother?) David | Talk 12:43, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete; trivia, unmaintainable and overly broad. Radiant_ &gt;|&lt; 13:12, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep! (close to Strong Keep) - yes it's silly, but these people are all notable, and agree with Brequinda that this is actually an encyclopedic gem! (maybe its just a Brit thing....) - would probably recommend Rename to 'List of Celebrities with Double-Barrelled name'. - Petesmiles talk
 * Delete. Not encyclopedic. Double-barrelled name appears to be a neologism based on raw number of Google hits, but if it's a UK thing, maybe that's why I've never heard it. In any case, if this article is kept, it needs to be renamed to something that non-Brits will recognize. Also, change people to notable people. (Celebrities is also good, but "List of notable x" is how these kinds of lists are usually named, IIRC.) A &#1080; D &#1103; 01D  TALK  EMAIL  13:57, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * I can confirm that double-barrelled isn't a neologism, but commonplace British-English phrase. However, I still urge delete as useless. --Doc (?) 14:05, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I'd say that Brit English should get equal footing with American English. I would suggest that the list focus only on double-barrell last names.Youngamerican 15:25, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Irrelevant list. What's next? List of people where 'xyz' is a substring of their name?. Nabla 15:22, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * further to previous - how about a Keep, but rename to 'A List of Notable People With Double-barrelled name' - is it in fact possible to have a link in an article name ('scuse ignorance)? - and a personal note - this list is of course fun, and a bit silly - but the collection of these names IMO is encyclopedic in the broad Wiki sense, and brings interesting questions of class / power relationships to mind - and could be a useful resource for related research, that's my two pennies! Petesmiles 15:48, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * But how does this bring power/class questions to mind? How is it useful for related research? I can see no use for this! What about 'list of celebrities whose surname relates to an occupation - or whose middle name begins with a vowel - or who don't have middle names - are these also encyclopedic? Stop the nonsense here! Delete --Doc (?) 15:56, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. "Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information", including "Lists or repositories of loosely associated topics". Double-barrelled names quite rightly have an article. Various examples in there (as it has for triple-barrelled names) are certainly appropriate. A list of all of them? Not a significant enough common thread, even if it gets moved to list of celebrities. Make sure the most famous examples are in Double-barrelled name, and then I'd say delete the list. I suppose you could make a category of it, though. The Literate Engineer 15:51, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Another pointless list. -R. fiend 16:41, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete utterly useless list, basically information-free CDC   (talk)  17:00, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Categorify, list is objectively definable but as Doc points out, sheds no additional light on any encyclopedic topic. I assume here that the claims above that "double-barrelled name" is the best way to describe this are correct. Dcarrano 17:35, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Useless, potentially huge and unmaintanable. Martg76 21:19, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete wtf, there are millions of such people!!!  Grue   21:33, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete I hate most of these 'list of ...' lists but this is particularly pointless. Redlentil 21:39, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, useless, unencyclopedic, and unmaintainable list. --Angr/undefined 05:34, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unmaintainable list. JamesBurns 08:09, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - unmaintainable, irrelevant since most people with double-barrelled names have nothing else in common - Skysmith 11:11, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, unencyclopedic and unmaintainable. At most, add notables to double-barrelled name.  -Sean Curtin 06:10, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Pavel Vozenilek 23:45, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete MakeRocketGoNow 20:29, July 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unencyclopedic. Indrian 16:04, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
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