Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of politicians of royal heritage


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The result was delete. Tone 17:53, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

List of politicians of royal heritage

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Unreferenced list of people, on a characteristic that sounds more significant than it really is. As has been repeatedly pointed out by scientists, virtually everybody of European heritage is a descendant of Charlemagne, virtually everybody of Asian heritage is a descendant of Genghis Khan, and on and so forth -- not everybody can actually document their family trees that far back, but that's solely an inconsistency of human record-keeping, and doesn't change the fact that basically all humans are descendants of royalty along one or more of our genealogical lines. To be fair, the list is keeping things more narrow and manageable, listing (but still not actually referencing) only politicians who happen to be immediate children or grandchildren of royalty, but even that isn't a distinction that necessarily makes a politician special -- happening to have a royal parent or grandparent doesn't give a politician any special status or authority over his or her colleagues in and of itself. So this is basically just an unsourced list of trivia, not an important or defining distinction for a politician to hold. Bearcat (talk) 17:31, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 17:31, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 17:31, 11 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete - Useless list. As Bearcat says, apparently every person alive today of European ancestry can claim Charlemagne as an ancestor so, arguably, all ethnically European politicians can be put on this list - and one could probably credibly argue that everyone on Earth, or the vast majority, are descended from an ancient royal. Might as well have a list of all politicians who have 10 fingers and toes. Sowny (talk) 16:52, 12 September 2020 (UTC)


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