Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:List of historical women

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 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was:  delete. While the votes were (very neatly) split down the middle, the argument that this list article violates WP:INDISCRIMINATE is more compelling than the argument that it might be useful for spin-off lists. Due to its overly broad inclusion criteria, this list would never make it into mainspace. While I'm sympathetic to the idea that it might be useful for spin-off lists, if no one has found it useful since it was created in 2006, it's unlikely that it's going to be found useful by anyone. ‑Scottywong | [verbalize] || 01:22, 15 November 2020 (UTC)

Draft:List of historical women

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Far too general a list that cannot hope to ever be anything close to comprehensive. This is essentially a List of every woman we know about. There are even living persons included, which makes "historical" doubtful. Even if some cut-off for "historical" was added it would still be a list of Every biographical article of a woman before X date. Due to this lack of specificity and discrimination it does not fulfill any criterion of WP:LISTPURPS and the inclusion criteria does not fit WP:LISTCRIT. A very good example of WP:INDISCRIMINATE. No hope of becoming a useful article promoted out of draft space. [[User:Eggishorn|Eggishorn ]] (talk) (contrib) 16:10, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep - This draft may have uses. In particular, a segment of it might be spun off as a draft list that might really be considered, and being considered is reason enough to keep a draft.  Robert McClenon (talk) 16:44, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
 * keep. There are many possibilities for use outside of mainspacing in the current form.  Someone could userfy it, or move to a WikiProject, per WP:DUD. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 22:04, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep but mainly so it can be userfied or moved to a WikiProject. Rubbish computer (Talk: Contribs) 11:14, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep and userfy/move to WikiProject. If you need a user to "park" it, feel free to move it to a subpage of User:Alexis Reggae. (this doesn't mean I would work on it or anything, just offering space) you are active on WP:Women in red, right? Maybe it could be a subpage there or a similar WikiProject? (WikiProject Women perhaps..) — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 17:32, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
 * I have left a notification at Women in Red.  G M G  talk  11:20, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep - May be useful in some way per those above. — Godsy (TALK CONT ) 06:07, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
 * delete. Poster-child for WP:INDISCRIMINATE. Useless in article space. Useless for Women in Red. It has been around for 14 years and is still useless because it will always be useless because it is an indiscriminate list. --Tagishsimon (talk) 17:03, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Way too broad in scope, could never be useful. If we want to make sub-lists of some sort, it would be easier to start with categories than with this list. Calliopejen1 (talk) 17:28, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and Calliopejen1, this topic is way too broad in scope to be useful. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:51, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom essentially. Hopelessly too broad, and too ill-defined. Lists of women is effectively this, but better organized. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 22:14, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete after adding the few redlinked names to the appropriate WIR lists. This is too broad and ill-defined to become an article, as others have pointed out, and apart from those few names it doesn't seem useful for future article development efforts, either. XOR&#39;easter (talk) 23:01, 13 November 2020 (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 page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.