Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Deaths in 2008

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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 WP:SNOW keep. Mr.Z-man 18:00, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Deaths in 2008

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DELETE Violated WP:NOT#DIR & WP:NOT#MEMORIAL. F.U.R hurts Wikipedia 17:19, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

  • Speedy keep You'll have an uphill battle on this one. Michael Hardy (talk) 17:20, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Strong keep. Useful - on the Finnish Wikipedia, we surely wouldn't be aware of his death without this. --Jetman (talk) 17:29, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment This listing does not yet appear at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2008 April 3. Why not? Michael Hardy (talk) 17:37, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
    • Because the nominator has not listed this correctly. J Milburn (talk) 17:42, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
      • OK, I've put it there, but I'm not sure I've dotted all the "i"s, etc. Michael Hardy (talk) 17:45, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
        • I've formatted this discussion in the usual way, it is now listed properly. J Milburn (talk) 17:47, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep, we have this for other years. However, this one is formatted differently... Tan | 39 17:46, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Strong (and maybe speedy) keep. This is very, very established- linked from the main page, etc. If we want to change something like this, AfD is not the root- instead, the village pump, with notices at various places (Talk:Main Page and the like) would be the best way to decide the matter. J Milburn (talk) 17:47, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
  • STRONG KEEP I can't believe this is even being considered. extremely foolish. Thismightbezach (talk) 17:49, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep and speedy close unless the nomination includes either a rationale for this specific page's deletion, or a reason to discuss all of the similar pages. — Gavia immer (talk) 17:49, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Speedy keep per WP:SNOW (and/or WP:STEAM). —BradV 17:51, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep. This is clearly going to be snowball kept, but I'd like to ask here - do traditional encyclopedias list deaths by year like this as an appendix (obviously there are far less biographies in paper encyclopedias)? I'd like to know more about what Britannica includes, so that I can compare it to WP, having never really spent a great amount of time browsing a high quality paper encyclopedia before. Would Britannica even have an article on Pokemon? I know it's offtopic to this, but it's something I've been curious about for a long time.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 17:52, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
    • Replied on talk page. J Milburn (talk) 17:58, 3 April 2008 (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.