Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Persondata/List of biographies

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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. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 02:31, 26 September 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Persondata/List of biographies

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This page and all of its sub pages (quote: "a list of all articles tagged with WPBiography as of 18 December 2007... (455 966 articles)"; examples: 4, 4b, 46) seem to have no purpose, but occasionally act as a drain on volunteer time in disambiguating links. They have not been substantially edited since 2009 and the parent project is long defunct. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:34, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - In looking this over, it is not entirely clear whether this list ever had much of a purpose. If it were complete, it would be a list of 1.6 million biographies (out of 5.9 million articles) (not all of which are BLPs).  In any case, if it has any use, that use would be only historical, but this is too spotty and long and clumsy a list to have historical value.  Send it to the bit bucket.  Robert McClenon (talk) 20:02, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not sure why this couldn't have been blanked as an archiving method for all old useless things.  Presumably it had transient value at the time.  There don't appear to be any important incoming links, so it should be safe to delete.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 01:19, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete it and its subpages per above. WP:Persondata is defunct anyway. -Crossroads- (talk) 05:35, 24 September 2019 (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.