Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of state governors of the United States who were Freemasons


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The result was delete --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:38, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

List of state governors of the United States who were Freemasons

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Topic is not notable enough for a stand alone list article. The intersection between being the Governor of a US State, and being a member of a Masonic Lodge is non-notable (Conspiracy theorists may talk a lot about which US Presidents were Freemasons, but not even they talk about which Governors were members of the fraternity). It is unlikely that anyone would search for this topic. Besides, anyone who would qualify for this list is already listed in one of our List of Freemasons articles. Blueboar (talk) 16:07, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
 * delete nonnotable subject fr a list. - üser:Altenmann >t 16:52, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete - The attempt to make a connection between US governors and free masons is a long shot. Plus, IMO, the list of only 5 governors is too short to have its own page. Meatsgains (talk) 17:52, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment: For the record, this was created from a category which was deleted, see Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_October_24. As the creator of that category is Blueboar, who showed a change of view during that discussion and is now the nominator here, it seems unlikely that there will be a consensus to keep this one. – Fayenatic  L ondon 18:36, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
 * For the record... Yes, I did create that category. I though that it might work as a category (actually a sub-cat of the broader Category:Freemasons) ... it didn't.  But as a list topic it's worse. Category groupings don't need to be notable (they need to be defining, which is slightly different)... list topics, on the other hand, do need to be notable, and this topic isn't. Blueboar (talk) 21:06, 18 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete - In its present form, this article fails notability. Fiddlersmouth (talk) 00:36, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:43, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:43, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:43, 18 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete per nominator. "X who were also Y" is not a suitable topic for a list, if there's nothing inherently notable about the intersection of X and Y as a thing in its own right. Bearcat (talk) 19:48, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete Freemason membership is not public. Articles like this turn into magnets for conspiracy theories.John Pack Lambert (talk) 08:39, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete unless we want List of state governors who play chess or List of state governors who are Mormons Legacypac (talk) 23:40, 24 December 2015 (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.