Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Living prime ministers of the United Kingdom


 * 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 as redundant to content in List of prime ministers of the United Kingdom and per consensus in similar discussions for other lists of living former heads of government. RL0919 (talk) 06:45, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Living prime ministers of the United Kingdom

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Stats trivia of no encyclopedic relevance. Fails LISTN, and also WP:V and WP:OR (a prime example being the whole of the "miscellaneous" section, which is an undignified collation of factoids without a single source to back them up. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 03:36, 30 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Engr.  Smitty   Werben 04:18, 30 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. Engr.  Smitty   Werben 04:18, 30 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. Engr.  Smitty   Werben 04:18, 30 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Redirect to List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom. I think it technically passes WP:LISTN, as I'm sure we will find discussions of the collective living prime ministers, but that doesn't require us to have an article. Further, the subset doesn't add anything to our readers comprehension; they are better served by the total list, rather than this artificial sublist. BilledMammal (talk) 11:21, 30 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NOTDIR #6 ("Non-encyclopedic cross-categorizations"). There's no indication that this specific cross-categorization is notable. Edge3 (talk) 20:42, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep Yes, it could go in List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, but it's already long and complex. Adding this information would make it harder to read. This article needs to be noted as the main article at Prime Minister of United Kingdom#Living former prime ministers. Green Hook 1224 15:29, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete as redundant. Nothing needs to be added to List of prime ministers of the United Kingdom. Just look for the ones with no year of death specified. Clarityfiend (talk) 08:15, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. Utterly trivial and not relevant to the politics of any given year, how many prime ministers were living at a given time. Geschichte (talk) 06:56, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete - I find this list interesting, but I think that it is bordering on trivia and not essential information. As others have said it is not really of any great importance/significance how many ex-Prime Ministers were alive at any given time and the information about current living former Prime Ministers is easily available elsewhere. As such I do not think this article meets Wikipedia requirements. Dunarc (talk) 22:55, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep per Articles for deletion/Living prime ministers of New Zealand. Fabio 7654 (talk) 23:05, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete As with Articles for deletion/Living presidents of India and Articles for deletion/Living presidents of Bolivia, this is to my eye an WP:INDISCRIMINATE collection of statistics without context or explanation of significance, and as such WP:DELREASON (Any other content not suitable for an encyclopedia) applies. That all the prose (apart from the WP:LEAD) is confined to a section called "Miscellaneous" is to me a clear sign that something is wrong with the way the article has been constructed. I don't see anything worth merging to List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, and I don't think this title would make for a useful redirect. If we want to, we can create a graphical illustration akin to Template:Lifespan of each President of India, but that can be discussed separately. TompaDompa (talk) 23:31, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per the decision made at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Living presidents of the United States67.173.23.66 (talk) 00:57, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. Too far out in terms of encyclopedicality. The exact same type of article has been deleted for Australia, Sweden and the US. Nurg (talk) 01:44, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete: doesn't add any encyclopaedic value — DaxServer (talk to me) 06:48, 5 September 2021 (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.