Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of stand-up comedians


 * 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  no consensus. May need cleanup, cites. Bearian (talk) 01:31, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

List of stand-up comedians

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This article has no merit whatsoever. I mean come on, a list of stand-up comedians by nation? I just can't imagine a situation where someone needs to look up a list of generic comedians from nation of origin... tbone (talk) 08:41, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep - It's verifiable, so it meets WP:V, and there are definitely WP:RS out there for these people. Secondly, this nomination reeks of WP:IDONTLIKEIT.  Wisdom89  ( T |undefined /  C ) 08:56, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Of course I don't like it; however, the reason I don't like it is its flimsy significance, and according to WP:DP, even with WP:IDONTLIKEIT in mind, that is a just argument. We're not talking about a band, song, ice hockey team or anything else that could viewed with extreme subjective discretion... We're talking about non-first rate, low class articles. It's articles like these that provide people with a reason for calling Wikipedia excessive and even moronic. - tbone (talk) 18:51, 19 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep this sort of humor is, after all, very national-specific. Seems a sensible way of doing it. DGG (talk) 09:09, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment Seems to have too many red links which are unsupported by citations. Since the list is long, is there an easy way of removing all these?  Colonel Warden (talk) 12:37, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Probably, "it's verifiable" is the weakest argument on here. I suppose one could say that about any list or article.  This is the classic indiscriminate list, and it's unsourced.  I guess I'm not up on all the fifty Brazilian comedians (or maybe more like fifty bazillion comedians) on this silly list.  Mandsford (talk) 22:26, 19 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep, decent list with a very reasonable breakdown. (The only other ones I can think of, off-hand, are a) language; b) floruit; c) a very fuzzy genre approach.) This could further split into individual lists when merited. If redlinks are a problem they can be phased out (I would start with a talk page warning and a grace period). --Dhartung | Talk 11:07, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * If this were a "List of actors" or a "List of singers", separated by nationality, I don't think it would last. There are few lists that are truly "unmaintainable", but this falls in that category.  You have to rely purely on faith about whether the names that you don't recognize are notable even in their home country, or even that they're comedians.  And since it's a pure act of faith, any name can be put here.  Did you do a routine at the Holiday Inn in Schenectady a couple of years ago?  You need to put your name on the Wikipedia list of stand-up comedians.  Mandsford (talk) 12:47, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. If you must reference by countries, use categories, not lists. Majoreditor (talk) 18:19, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unmanagable list. Redundant to the Category:Stand-up comedians by country scheme, which can do the job better. PC78 (talk) 02:17, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete unmanageable as is. Having separate lists for individual countries would make more sense but these articles quickly become vanity magnets. The editing cost of maintaining the list exempt from comedian-spam is not worth the very very tiny advantage over the categories. Pichpich (talk) 03:17, 23 February 2008 (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.