Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Chinese people

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 no consensus, default to keep. Splits are an editorial matter. Sandstein 15:15, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of Chinese people

List of Chinese people (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

There were/are so many famous Chinese people that a list is largely useless and cannot be at all comprehensive. Delete. --Nlu (talk) 22:55, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

• Split, to corresponding lists, such as List of Chinese warlords or List of Chinese actors. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 23:16, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as per nom. Note that the title doesn't reflect that it's "famous" Chinese people. Needs to be more specific to be workable and valuable for an encyclopedic entry.Bobanny 23:17, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete By the nature of the subject, this list must be either so incomplete as to be valueless or to large to be accessible.--Anthony.bradbury 23:38, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
• Split Then change this to Lists of Chinese people in line with Lists of Roman Catholics.--T. Anthony 01:02, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Absolutely unmaintainable listcruft. Think about the precedent this sets, too... I'd just love to see an AfD for a List of White people. Finally, as far as the actual article title is concerned, it'll take more than a billion names simply to complete it. --The Way 06:58, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

We have a Category:Lists of people by nationality and none of them are intended to be exhaustive. They're supposed to be limited to people of encyclopedic value limited to those nations. Still it's bizarre we have a whole Category:Lists of Hong Kong people yet tried to make mainland Chinese just one list. I'd prefer there be a Category:Lists of Chinese people.--T. Anthony 16:14, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

• Split by occupation, reason for notability, etc. -→Buchanan-Hermit™/?! 20:16, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
• Split by occupation, there are so many notable Chinese in history and the list is too huge. We have so many Chinese people to list, several lists is needed. --Terence Ong _{(C | R)} 08:39, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
• Split. A list of Chinese people is just asking for trouble. There are a billion of them after all. DrKiernan 18:07, 1 December 2006 (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.