Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:List of sex symbols

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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, Salt. — xaosflux  Talk 15:51, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

Draft:List of sex symbols

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As the canned message used when restoring a draft that gets G13-ed says, Drafts [...] are not for the indefinite hosting of material found to be unsuitable for inclusion in the encyclopedia. The last serious effort to make this page suitable for the encyclopedia was in July 2020 (all edits since then have been trivial tweaks), and the page sat unedited by a human from September 2021 until I tagged it for G13 deletion in March 2022. That deletion (which requires a steward because the page has more than 5,000 revisions) got bogged down in technicalities at SRM. Thus, this page would have been speedy deleted weeks ago if it weren't too big to be deleted by an admin, and thus should be deleted lest we enshrine the concept that certain pages are too big to fail. * Pppery * it has begun... 20:58, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I think the question is more whether some of these revisions are needed for attribution purposes since this edit did copy stuff from the page. I see that the last deletion discussion had a "delete" outcome though so between G13 and that I think the expected outcome should be a deletion. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 10:17, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * see logs 1 and logs 2 - appears following the last bigdelete an undelete was performed. — xaosflux  Talk 12:50, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * They aren't needed for attribution because I already performed a recording of the authors of the merged content back on Meta, which I'm copying here for easy access: * Pppery * it has begun...  13:33, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * The above comment apparently pinged all of the users I linked to, which was not my intent. At least only one of them is active. * Pppery * it has begun... 13:35, 31 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete based on Articles for deletion/List of sex symbols (4th nomination) and Articles for deletion/List of sex symbols (2). This draft will not become an article.  Robert McClenon (talk) 15:42, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * SALT in both article space and draft space. Robert McClenon (talk) 15:42, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete User:Sandstein closed the last AFD with I am satisfied that we have rough consensus for deletion until there is a solid consensus among interested editors for establishing inclusion criteria. To establish such consensus, the article can be draftified or userfied, and if such consensus can be established, the article can be restored. It was an indiscriminate list of more than 400 k with no proper inclusion criteria. It was massively trimmed, and moved to Draft after the AFD, but no inclusion criteria have been established. Meters (talk) 19:23, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. Draftifying was optimistic. There's no reasonable possibility of it being an actual article, for the reasons I've previously put forth in 2017, 2019, and 2020: basically, there's no established criteria for this list and it amounts to a list of people who someone, somewhere, has used the phrase "sex symbol" to describe. Burn it with fire.
 * My only issue previously expressed was about preserving the edit history to the extent required to account for this copy-paste merge in compliance with CC-BY, and Pppery appears to have addressed that above, so I'm good with nuking it. TJRC (talk) 21:22, 31 March 2022 (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.