Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of libertarians

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The result was keep. Mark Arsten (talk) 13:50, 4 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

List_of_libertarians

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Very poor list. There is no lack of lists of Libertarians already, see Category:Libertarians. Qgil (talk) 16:48, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep as a logical and discriminating list. Lists add more information than categories and serve different purposes. It is a very poor list, but that is a matter of editing, not of criteria. There is the problem in that "libertarianism" itself is ill defined, and the criteria for this list needs to be more precise, but again, a matter of editing. In the end, it is a reasonable way to not only categorize people, but to list them, allowing ease of use to find related topics. And I see nothing in WP:LISTS that would prohibit this type of list as well, so I'm unsure as to the actual rationale for the nom, other than "I don't like it", as no policy based reason was provided. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 19:23, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep- although it could certainly use expanding, it is not unreasonable to allow this potentially important list to remain on the wiki. Ducknish (talk) 21:22, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep and improve - Per WP:NOTDUP and WP:LISTPURP. Northamerica1000^(talk) 22:57, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per WP:NOTDUP, nothing wrong with the list except that it needs building up. Someone another 00:25, 28 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I have many more items that I would like to add to the list from my notes, along with their sources, but I have been quite busy lately.Zzzplayer (talk) 03:30, 28 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 22:26, 29 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete As Qgil says we have a category which provides a listing, and it goes into subcategories by nationality. And this category is listed in Outline of libertarianism. Adding the presently categorized names would give us a 400+ item list -- hardly useful. And then, as libertarians take over the world, the list would go on and on and on!--S. Rich (talk) 00:42, 3 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Qgil makes a good point. There is already a Category:Libertarians that includes libertarians by nationality‎, christian libertarians‎, crypto-anarchists‎, libertarian economists‎, libertarian historians‎, individualist anarchists‎, left-libertarians‎, and libertarian theorists‎. All this list does is duplicate that, yet doesn't cover nearly as much. Why on earth would we want to make more work for ourselves when the tasks at WP:LIBERTY#Tasks already need attention?

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