Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Pakistanis

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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 keep. --jonny-mt 05:37, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] List of Pakistanis

List of Pakistanis (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (delete) – (View log)

This list appears to be a mess of red links, non-links, and overlaps with various other lists (eg List of Pakistani musicians). The formatting is, um, unusual, probably in an attempt to reduce the length of the page. I'm not sure this serves any purpose that Category:Pakistani people doesn't address (except for the inclusion of non-notables). Delicious carbuncle (talk) 22:02, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

  • Keep but the list needs to be cleaned. I have removed overlapping and trying to clean it too. There also exists lists of famous people of many other countries. So, if this one is deleted then others can also be considered for deletion. --SMS Talk 22:27, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Pakistan-related deletion discussions. -- BelovedFreak 23:29, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. -- BelovedFreak 23:29, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Neutral This list is better than a mere cat as it organizes people by field of interest. Of course this could also be achieved by sub cats under Pakistani people. Either way I don't care.Insearchofintelligentlife (talk) 02:33, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete or change to cat Would we have a list of Americans? It seems to me that the impression granted by having a list of pakistanis in wikipedia might be that they aren't as a whole as notable or important than other countries (those for whole a list would be unwieldy).Protonk (talk) 03:36, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
Well we do have Lists of Americans. We also have List of Afghans, List of Bangladeshis, and List of Iranians. See Wikipedia:Lists and Wikipedia:Featured lists for an understanding of what's currently considered appropriate in a list.--T. Anthony (talk) 10:23, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep Normally, these types of lists are indiscriminate, in that they have no text and no clue as to why a person is mentioned. In those instances, a category imparts no less information, and does it better. In this case, there's at least a start to describing the persons on here. Certainly, we could have a category like "Pakistani businessmen", but the information about them is communicated better as part of an article. Mandsford (talk) 14:22, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep The reason why we should be keeping this article is for the fact that whatever articles come listed under categories exist as articles on the Wikipedia but a list of people as a whole with some red links (not yet started articles) gives users a starting point to commence articles for those very people attributed by the links. Arun Reginald (talk) 02:11, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep It just needs cleanup and reduction of red links.DizFreak talk Contributions 20:54, 21 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.