Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Slavs

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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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Delete. Redwolf24 (talk) 00:44, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] List of Slavs

del. An utterly ridiculous list. Three people at talk page suggested to delete it. mikka (t) 16:42, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

  • KeepNeeds some work though-71.28.243.246 16:51, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, I see no reason to exclude Slavs. Gazpacho 16:54, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
    • Slavs aren't excluded, they're included in other lists (see below). Carbonite | Talk 17:04, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Strong delete. There's already lists for individual countries (List of Belarusians,List of Bulgarians, List of Croatians, List of Czechs, List of Macedonians, List of Poles, List of Russians, List of Serbs, List of Sorbs, List of Slovaks, List of Slovenians, List of Ukrainians) so why is this combination list needed? Carbonite | Talk 16:59, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Strong delete. I feel that the List of Russians, etc is also a candidate for deletion. We have categories for this purpose. --Ghirlandajo 17:46, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep Kpjas 18:59, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Come on people, this is what categories are for. This is an absolutely textbook situation for a category. Lord Bob 19:12, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete This is why categories were created. Denni☯ 00:58, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep and cleanup. Slavs are a significant enough category of European people to warrant a list apart from the constituent nationalities. Capitalistroadster 01:06, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
    • Why not use a category instead? Surely anyone notable enough to make that list would or should have an article. Carbonite | Talk 01:09, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. The Slavs have always been seen as a much more coherent group of nationalities than any other linguistic group in Europe. Some cleanup may be needed. VMORO 01:20, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete categorize please Ryan Norton T | @ | C 01:47, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete as listcruft. Good category candidate. MCB 06:45, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete by User:Carbonite. Martg76 09:30, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete categorize. feydey 11:17, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete, and merge into more specific lists and/or categories. -Sean Curtin 03:17, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete per Ghirlandajo and others. --IJzeren Jan 09:34, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Strong delete. The list is (a) unmaintainable, since all attention of people is turned to country lists, (b) nonsensical since the only relation between the people there is common language in ancient past. Equivalent would be to create "List of people speaking a Germanic language" and get mishmash of names just like here. The list is not "List of Pan-Slavists" which would make some sense but is example of useless trash Wikipedia contains more and more. Pavel Vozenilek 17:16, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete too many of them.  Grue  18:14, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Strong delete. It is listomania at its worst. KNewman 19:56, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete and list by individual Slavonic ethnicities. --MacRusgail 22:34, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. A much more granular approach in categories is what is called for here. Jkelly 01:34, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, wikipedia users should be able to find examples of famous Slavs, and what they are famous for, and when they lived. Categories cannot do that. Kappa 13:23, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Strong Delete Utterly pointless list. There are many lists that are pointless but this one may be their master. Why isn't there a list of Germanic people or list of Romantic people ??? Because it's pointless.
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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.