Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/People from Plymouth

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 delete. Sandstein 22:27, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] People from Plymouth

• Delete At best, this should be merged into the parent article, but there isn't alot there to merge. I mean, Napoleon? I know whenever I think of Napoleon, the first thing I think of is Plymouth, England... Just H 23:13, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Tentative. There are articles and categories like 'People connected to Plymouth' and this article could be tidied up by reviewing all of those items together. Napoleon would be a connected person, rather than someone from Plymouth. I can't confess to knowing on what basis someone is 'from' a place - I'll have to read up on policy and then maybe I can make a more meaningful contribution here.Stevebritgimp 21:00, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
• Rename, Reexplain I would suggest keeping the page but, a) renaming it to People from Plymouth, England and explaing what from means and clean up the list: born there, lived there, left and went somewhere else from there??? Can a person be "from" more than one place? All the from pages remind me of that joke: "such and such" is a great place to be from" but I like the from pages. Cool list, just thought Napolean was from an Italian island. 69.19.14.27 23:02, 17 December 2006 (UTC) sorry for the IP, I'm firewalled.

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached
 Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks, AnonEMouse ^(squeak) 20:30, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

• Delete This list should be renamed List of people connected to Plymouth, England, since the only non-list entry states that the list entries don't have to be from Plymouth, England. However, there are already two categories for people, respectively, from and connected to, Plymouth, England. Since the only difference between the list and the categories are that the list has three word long bios, I don't think Wikipedia needs both. I favour categories. Secateur 21:26, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as trivial. I guess Napoleon is here because he sailed as a prisoner from Plymouth to St Helena. But I shouldn't have to guess.--Anthony.bradbury 21:34, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Title does not correspond to contents. Too broad and arbitrary- Napolean? That's like listing Fidel Castro, Nikita Kruschev and Yassir Arafat as "People from New York" because they were at the U.N. Edison 21:48, 20 December 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.