Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of the most famous female rulers in history


 * 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 Delete.  (aeropagitica)   (talk)  07:53, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

List of the most famous female rulers in history
Inherently subjective and entirely a matter of opinion. Impossible to measure "fame", let alone relative fame between two famous people. Other subjective criteria are "ruled effectively", "influential" and "deemed important". Absolutely no objective criteria presented, or even possible. Agent 86 20:11, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. There is no article about Female rulers. Why not? Because Female rulers is not an encyclopedic topic. There are exceptions, but in general there should not be a "list of X" article unless there is an article on "X." The "list of X" should begin as a section of X and should not be broken out until it gets to be too large. Dpbsmith (talk) 21:24, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong Delete POV inheres: no Golda Meir, Corazon Aquino, Isabel Peron; I guess the third world doesn't count in famousness. Carlossuarez46 22:03, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep Most rulers are men. Therefore female rulers are comparatively ususual.  By all means add others including Golda Meir, Corazon Aquino, Isabel Peron, if you think they should be there.  Of course, who is most famous involves a POV, but so do many things.  Perhaps this should be converted into a category, 'Female rulers'.  However we should not have the converse -male rulers - ther are too many of them.  Peterkingiron 23:04, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Deleeet is in the house. Inherently POV - it's like one of those magazine "100 greatest X of all time" lists that are only useful for provoking arguments among people who can't find the names they expect. You know, sort of "Where's Ranavalona? What about Medb? Why no Christina? Why didn't they rate Joan of Arc? What about Eleanor of Aquitaine?" etc etc etc. As for a category, we already have two and a full list - they're all mentioned at the bottom of this article. Grutness...wha?  00:54, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete for reasons mentioned above. The informational need for names of female rulers is satisfied in various other categories and lists. SliceNYC 03:22, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. There's no citations showing that these are the most famous women rulers in history. Therefore it must be original research or just plain made up. --Hyphen5 05:48, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete WP:OR, and who defines what is famous? -Royalguard11Talk 00:53, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
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