Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Born on the same day

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[edit] Born on the same day

Looks like an attempt at (beginning) a list of people who were born on the same day. Luckily, we have articles such as April 9, already, so this is unnecessary and unmanageable. Tuf-Kat 02:53, Dec 27, 2004 (UTC)

• Delete, this would be impossible to maintain. The date articles already list major birthdays, so this article would also be largely irrelevent. Rje 03:04, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • If it's not your area of interest, DON'T maintain it. Leave it to those who find it interesting. Doovinator 16:00, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

• Delete.Mikkalai 04:17, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Delete.TOR 04:27, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• I'm going to be controversial and say keep, not to be deliberately obnoxious, but because I genuinely think it's interesting enough to be recorded somewhere. Sure the information is stored on the individual dates, but I think it's useful for a list of these to be stored somewhere as an individual list. I'd move the article to a different name though, maybe List of people who were born on the same day. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 04:34, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • But there's so many of them. If you try putting them all on one page, and you'd just have to split it back apart again due to size! -- Cyrius|✎ 06:47, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
    • Are there really THAT many? We're talking about the same DAY, not the same BIRTHday, which is some thing else entirely. And if there are really THAT many (which seems unlikely to me), couldn't they be categorized by month? Doovinator
      • Wait, the exact same date? Year and all? That's different, although I still think it's better-handled by the individual day pages instead of putting the same information in more places. -- Cyrius|✎ 18:05, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)
        • Yes, the exact same day, which is what each pair is, and would be, listed under. You can look to the individual day pages, but that way you have to look, and look HARD, for the info, when a single page can cover a long list of people. Doovinator 18:35, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Delete as unnecessary. This information can easily fit in both the date articles and the articles about the people listed. --Szyslak 04:36, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep It's possible to look up individual dates, but why make it difficult? I find it interesting when two persons are born on the same day, and I think it'd be very nice to have the info easily accessible. I don't find it "silly" at all. Besides, there's a huge war going on now over whether it should be mentioned on Charles Darwin's page that he was born on the same day as Abe Lincoln, and both of them are highly respected. Imagine if two wildly disparate people were born on the same day--say Madonna and the next Pope. It'd be very interesting, but also certain to cause another fight. Why not avoid that can of worms entirely? Doovinator 05:11, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Delete silly trivia. EventHorizon 04:42, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Delete. The individual date articles serve the same purpose. This article will never be updated enough to make it useful. Gamaliel 05:32, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Delete for reasons already given. DCEdwards1966 06:19, Dec 27, 2004 (UTC)
• Redirect to List of historical anniversaries iMeowbot~Mw 06:35, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. I like the idea, but I don't think the title works, and I'm not sure how you'd get to it. Deb 11:20, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • How about Famous people born on the same day? Doovinator 16:00, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

• Delete. Ambi 11:33, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Delete. Utterly pointless. Icundell 12:01, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Delete, unhelpful, redundant, doomed to incompleteness. Wyss 22:16, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Comment. List of people born on the same day as other people. 'Nuff said. JRM 00:28, 2004 Dec 28 (UTC)

  And just so I can't be accused of being completely facetious: List of coincident births. (Although even that list would be a trivia nightmare.) JRM 00:29, 2004 Dec 28 (UTC)

  • I think Sailor Moon is a trivia nightmare. Doesn't mean I want to shoot it down. If you don't want to know, don't go there. I'd like to know, and have all the info on one page. Doovinator 16:00, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

    Sailor Moon has a single topic. Sailor Moon can be redirected to from minor topic titles. I don't know how you want to organize a list of coincident births (or list of famous people born on the same day, or whatever). By date? By names? Both? This sounds like something that should be automated, not created as a manually-maintained page. Still no vote. JRM 16:16, 2004 Dec 29 (UTC)

    • I'd organize it by dates, as the likelihood that anyone famous in particular shares an exact day of birth with anyone else famous is rather small, and if one wants to access a particular person's birth data on the list they can do it by the date of birth listed in the bio. And is there really a great need to redirect automatically? If the persons listed on the page are in wikipedia, they can be accessed with one click anyway. Doovinator 17:37, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Delete - already covered, wouldn't fit in one big article anyway. -- Cyrius|✎ 06:47, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • But not covered in one place, which is the point. Doovinator 16:00, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

• Delete. Redundant and repetitive, redundant and repetitive. --Andylkl 11:17, Dec 29, 2004 (UTC)
  • So don't go there, so don't go there. KEEP Doovinator 16:00, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)
    • You only get to vote once. -- Cyrius|✎ 18:06, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)
      • I'm being redundant and repetitive :-) Doovinator
• Delete It's back to the old argument: who decides if both of the pair are famous? And if person X is a nuclear physicist and person Y is a serial killer - so what? Peter Shearan 13:46, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Comment. This article would not show pairs of people. It would have to list each of day of the year and list hundreds of people who were born on that day. Sounds pretty pointless to me, but some people might have fun updating it. It might also appeal to people who want to discover famous people with whom they share their birthday. --Etimbo 23:15, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)Sorry, I've just spotted that the article is about people born on exactly the same day, not sharing the same birthday. --Etimbo 23:21, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)