Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people with the Korean family name Lee


 * 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 keep.  bibliomaniac 1  5  06:32, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

List of people with the Korean family name Lee

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Unnecessary list. See WP:NOT. Rodney Araujo Tell me - My contributions  00:01, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Same as before Articles_for_deletion/List_of_people_with_the_Korean_family_name_Kim. I don't see the argument here. This article has been here for a long time and lists of notable people are allowed WP:LISTPEOPLE. This one is no different from other list of surname articles like List of people with surname Smith (in fact we have entire category of such articles Category:Lists_of_people_sharing_a_surname. Evaders99 (talk) 00:05, 10 February 2021 (UTC)


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 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 01:39, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Korea-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 01:39, 10 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Undecided. Korea has a few really, really common surnames, Lee being the second most common (14.7% of all South Koreans [one of every seven] per List of South Korean surnames by prevalence). Clarityfiend (talk) 06:00, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
 * We have List of people with surname Smith. Pontificalibus 16:19, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
 * According to this site, 0.88% of Americans are Smiths. Smith <<< Lee. Clarityfiend (talk) 02:43, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
 * What about absolute numbers, there are far more Americans than Koreans, not to mention the other four countries where Smith is the most popular surname. Doesn't this show that it's slightly absurd to have some kind of arbitrary limit beyond which a name is too popular to have a list article of notable individuals.Pontificalibus 19:45, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete this is the very definition of grouping people by shared name. Just because people have this last name does not mean they are overall related. Wikipedia is not a reliable source, and our early days were a lawless wild with no regulation of content. Having been around a while is in no way a sign that something is actually notable nor that we need an article on it.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:29, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep Entirely standard practice to have articles listing people with the same surname, I see no rationale for why this one should be treated differently to e.g. List of people with surname Smith as mentioned above.Pontificalibus 16:19, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, SK2242 (talk) 00:27, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep per my !vote on the Kim list; this is consistent with precedent and WP:LISTPURP. Vaticidalprophet (talk) 00:45, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment Doesn't this list overlap with List of people with surname Lee? Should these lists just be merged? Natg 19 (talk) 05:34, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I don't think so, as this is actually a List of people with the surname 이 following the requirement at WP:TRANSLITERATE.Pontificalibus 07:16, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. CommanderWaterford (talk) 07:58, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of South Korea-related deletion discussions. CommanderWaterford (talk) 07:58, 17 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Merge to List of people with surname Lee. Name lists are valid per MOS:DABNAME. It's not always definitive who has the Korean name, and it gets presumptuous if the person is from a Western country but is of Korean descent. There is already some overlap of entires with List of people with surname Lee.—Bagumba (talk) 10:29, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Leaning keep. Although these could be considered people "surnamed Lee", really they are people surnamed 리 or 이 and transliterated as Lee, which is a reasonable point of distinction from other formations of Lee. BD2412  T 23:50, 24 February 2021 (UTC)


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