Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Chadians

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 of the debate was Keep. pschemp | talk 20:20, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of Chadians

No content other than the names of famous Chadians. There is already a category for Chadian people, with three subcategories. KI 21:38, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

• Keep since redlinks cause new article creation. Also there is a precedent for this, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Norwegian photographers and others. Punkmorten 21:45, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, listcruft.--Isotope23 21:54, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Why? Punkmorten 21:58, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
    • Because there's no content! KI 22:10, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
      • It does contain many links, so I don't understand your notion... I added some context though. Punkmorten 22:14, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
        • It's yet another pointless list, as is List of Norwegian photographers, though List of Chadians is not quite to the level of Lists of Americans; at least it isn't a list of pointless lists. You may ascertain that I'm not a big fan of lists. No matter though since from the opinions here it is pretty obvious this is a keeper.--Isotope23 14:18, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as rewritten by Punkmorten. Shows we have more work to do on our Chad biographies by the look of things. Capitalistroadster 00:20, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Africa-related deletions. -- Humansdorpie 22:31, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep I've added quite a lot of the names to the article, and I don't understand what's the problem with the article. It's very common to have lists of people by nationality; we have about a hundred of them, covering almost all countries and main people (see List of people by nationality). And the people in the categories cover only a fraction of famous Chadians; the list is needed to at least name them, for when hopefully I or others will have enough material to build the distinct biographies. Aldux 00:45, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep You can do things with lists which just aint possible with Categories. Jcuk 00:36, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Agree with Punkmorten et al that a page such as this will stimulate the creation of articles that would otherwise be ignored. Keresaspa 14:06, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, lists and categories have different purposes. User:Zoe|^(talk) 19:50, 3 March 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.