Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Malayalam film actors (3rd nomination)

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. At first glance, this could be a "no consensus", but I'm going with delete. A difficult one in light of the lack of participation, but i found the arguments that it duplicates a category rather convincing. This is just a list of names with no real content or clearly defined inclusion criteria. There are also WP:BLP concerns to consider- by placing a person in this list, they are labelled as belonging to a group, but no sources at all are provided to prove that they belong in said group. The other policy consideration is WP:INDISCRIMINATE- Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information and this list is little more than that. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 03:17, 1 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

List of Malayalam film actors

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This list is not comprehensive and does not provide any useful information. This article just has a list which is difficult to maintain and is just a subset of the Category:Malayali actors. Sreejith K (talk) 18:15, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom, pointless list. JBsupreme (talk) ✄ ✄ ✄ 18:42, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

*Delete per nom and WP:NOTLINK. — Parent5446 ☯ ^{(msg email)} 20:35, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Looking more closely at the notability guidelines for lists of people, and observing the fact that numerous other articles quite similar to this one already exist, I am changing my vote to Keep. — Parent5446 ☯ ^{(msg email)} 15:59, 18 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:48, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:48, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Perfectly fine inclusion criteria of a notable topic. Lists and categories go hand-in-hand, per WP:CLN. Part of the bigger scheme Category:Lists of actors by nationality. Lugnuts (talk) 08:38, 18 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Delete Per nomination.--LAA Fan 01:53, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:01, 24 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete The sad thing about an indiscriminate list is the waste of an opportunity. This tells us nothing about any of the persons mentioned, and essentially reflects that the authors never actually cared about Malayalam film actors. Turns out that Adoor Bhasi is a comedian, and Babu Antony often portrays villains, but no, I don't want to click on the links to find out about the rest of the persons on this list of names in alphabetical order. If you can't want to do anything more than parroting a category, don't even bother, you're wasting your time and ours too. Mandsford 02:30, 24 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as it stands, its really a lousy list, and i hate lousy lists. the lede is possibly incorrect (malayalam is the language not the people), and doesnt elaborate on the criteria. the list should have some hidden text telling people not to add redlinks or unlinked names without references. each name SHOULD ideally have one other piece of info: birth date, birth province, other notable facts like whether they are also directors, writers etc. however, since its entirely reasonable to say that a list of malayalam/malayi actors is possible, i think on principle it should stand and not just exist as a category. I know, no one is probably ever going to fix it, and its horrible. If it passes afd i will add some of what i list here.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 02:54, 24 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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