Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of world leaders at the funeral of Yitzhak Rabin


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The result was delete.    Sandstein   19:12, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

List of world leaders at the funeral of Yitzhak Rabin

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First, it's trivia and a violation of WP:IINFO. (Plus, the respective article already has a good list of the key people in attendance.) Second, it's unreferenced. And third, what's a "world leader"? Some of the entries here - Mongolian Ambassador to Egypt, Fijian Interior Minister, Judd Gregg - hardly seem to fit the bill. Biruitorul (talk) 18:15, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Funerals of world leaders are routinely attended by world leaders, and Wikipedia is not a directory of such appearances. --Dhartung | Talk 20:19, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete as WP:OR, uncited, and generally tabloidish. Frank  |  talk  20:29, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete - I understand the logic behind the article, since the funeral brought an uncommonly large number of delegations to Israel (including countries with no previous overt diplomatic relations). But, unfortunately, it doesn't seem to fit here. Ecoleetage (talk) 20:58, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep, first of all, just about everything on Wikipedia is trivia and there's no policy against trivia. This list isn't a violation of WP:IINFO. Much of this list could be merged into Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin if this list is deemed to be too long. Since editors should endeavor to preserve information, and a merge would be plausible, deletion is not an issue. I'm sure you could find references for most of these people, starting by consulting the references in the Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin section. The phrase "world leaders" in the title can be modified. I suggest the list be kept and a merge discussion started. Were there any political motivations behind this nomination? --Pixelface (talk) 21:07, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * No, why would you ask if there's a political motivation? And: actually, see WP:TRIVIA - saying that "just about everything on Wikipedia is trivia" is quite incorrect. Look at this month's FAs - no trivia there. Biruitorul (talk) 21:44, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I asked because you have several political userboxes on your userpage and this article is related to a politician. I appreciate your answer. And WP:TRIVIA applies to trivia sections in articles, there isn't a policy against trivia. And I stand by my statement that just about everything on Wikipedia is trivia. While this month's featured articles look nice, they are also full of trivia. --Pixelface (talk) 05:57, 17 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I can appreciate Pix's cynicism about Wikipedia, but there actually is a policy against trivia sections. There's no requirement that articles must be dull, and although trivia should be interesting, not everything that is interesting should be considered trivial.  Mandsford (talk) 21:12, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Could you link to that policy? --Pixelface (talk) 21:41, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment I can't see any way that this would avoid deletion, so I urge the author ot save it to his/her hard drive. I imagine that the point of this may have been to demonstrate the "importance" that various nations accorded to the existence of the nation of Israel, or at least how they felt in 1995 (author mentioned everything except when the funeral was).  This would have some significance, perhaps, regarding which Arab nations sent delegations to Israel, and whether other nations sent their head of government, head of state, foreign minister, dogcatcher, whatever.  However, a "guest list" is the wrong way to convey that type of information.  This could probably be reduced to a paragraph in an article about Rabin, or about Israel in 1995, or something else.  Mandsford (talk) 21:12, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Trivial and unreferenced. The main article already establshes that there were a lot of notable world-leaders at his funeral. -- brew crewer  (yada, yada) 22:09, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak delete unreferenced and it would be terrible if everyone who died was given a page listing attendees, however there is a possibility that in the future someone would like to have the information at hand, such as for a school project or similar ~ Ameliorate U T @ 22:26, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:IINFO. Stifle (talk) 22:27, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete as trivial, unsourced, unencyclopedic, and apathy-inducing. I mean, half of these people are redlinked, and most of them aren't "world leaders" by any but the loosest definition (US Senators and Egyptian energy ministers don't really count) --UsaSatsui (talk) 10:35, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete per nom, unsourced. Ostap 02:23, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep This was a very important event, and the list of those present is an interesting indicator of the state of international political relations.--Poetlister (talk) 12:01, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * However, define "world leaders". Biruitorul (talk) 16:23, 21 May 2008 (UTC)


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