Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Interracial Miscellaneous

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 between merge and deletion; those wishing to merge are free to pursue that in the usual way. --Sam Blanning^(talk) 12:37, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Interracial Miscellaneous

A redundant list - see List of multiracial people - with style problems. Not much point in a redirect since I can't imagine anyone ever referring to this particular title, so I think it should be deleted. Crystallina 00:04, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Merge This and sundry articles was created by User:Americanbeauty415 as a fork of List of Black/White people. My opinion is that they should be re-merged, since "Interracial" doesn't solely describe black/white couples, at least in modern usage. Also listing Interracial Actresses/Actors, Interracial Athletes, Interracial Historical Figures, Interracial Singers/Vocalist. The fork also destroyed all the old references (they don't show up in the new articles) but that's easily solved by readding the references section. ColourBurst 00:12, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

• Merge into List of interracial people if there's a considerable amount of information in this article that isn't already in the other. I can't image a situation where we'd ever want an article with "miscellaneous" in the title, and this certainly isn't one. However, the content of the list itself may be salvagable. -Elmer Clark 01:12, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

• Comment Do not merge into List of interracial people (which is a redirect to List of multiracial people), this is specifically forked from list of Black/White people (see my comment above), it uses the "old" definition of interracial (black/white couplings). ColourBurst 01:28, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

• Comment: I don't understand your comment. Is this meant to be a list of Black/White people? Then the article should be under a different name than 'Interracial Miscellaneous', and it should have an introduction about who should and shouldn't be included in the list. Chip Unicorn 01:44, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

• Comment I don't think I understand either. Surely all black/white people are interracial, and therefore it's fine to merge them into list of interracial people? Or am I misunderstanding? -Elmer Clark 01:47, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
• Comment See my very first Merge comment. This is a fork from List of Black/White people, and thus is not a list of multiracial people. ColourBurst 01:55, 20 October 2006 (UTC) Addendum: a "fork" means somebody copied the content from the original article onto the new one, and (in this case) deleted the old content. Unfortunately there's very little context in the list itself. ColourBurst 02:01, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

• Merge: As I commented in Talk:Interracial Miscellaneous, I think that this should be brought in with List of multiracial people. Chip Unicorn 01:44, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
• Merge Per above. Michael Billington (talk • contribs) 03:53, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete all interracial or "black/white" lists, not suitable for Wikipedia. Punkmorten 09:33, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
• Comment So who is not in some sense interracial? Instead of listing 6 billion people, just list the few who are somehow absolutely pure blooded and can prove it.Gobawoo 16:15, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment To me it sounds equally nonsensical. Someone already tried this and look what happened. --Ouro 16:34, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment Even if you do not believe in the concept of race, there are many people who believe in the concept, and there's still a social construct by that name, so to say it's invalid is ignoring the many people who still believe in the concept and act accordingly, and ignoring those people is dangerous. And Ouro probably violated Godwin's Law. ColourBurst 16:55, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment I do not believe so, the article on Godwin's Law states there must be a comparison made involving the known topics. Mine was merely a reference. And as for the subject of the discussion, I wouldn't say I don't believe in the concept of race, I was merely saying that listing absolutely pure blooded people... now it's got me thinking. What would be the point, really? --Ouro 18:12, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
• delete pointless racist nitpicking. Whole Brazil is "multiracial". Mukadderat 17:09, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete redundant list. Arbusto 23:58, 25 October 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.