Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of rulers of Ife

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The result was keep. postdlf (talk) 18:19, 4 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

List of rulers of Ife

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This is a draft. The text is mostly notes which may be of use to an article creator. It is not an adequate article at the current time. The article should be moved to draft space, possibly with a stub placeholder replacing it.. LukeSurl^{t c} 16:26, 28 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Jupitus Smart 16:41, 28 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Nigeria-related deletion discussions. Jupitus Smart 16:41, 28 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. In that case use a tag that this needs to be cleaned up. Deleting is not the solution here. Gryffindor (talk) 21:26, 28 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. No seeing any obvious or concerning reason to support delete. Ajf773 (talk) 00:27, 29 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 17:54, 29 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. One must concede that the rulers of Ile-Ife, from circa 1200 to nowadays, were not baseball players nor porn actors, nor even alumni of any T.H.E.M. University. But they are notable enough to have their mortuary masks preciously kept in some notable places, the British Museum among them. The proposer should better ask herself why. Moreover, asking for more references seems to be a joke: a large bibliography is already given, and many more references are easy to obtain. Pldx1 (talk) 18:24, 29 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 15:54, 30 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep -- It may need a clean up, but so do many articles. We have an article on every UK peerage, so that I do not see why we should not have one on a ruling cheifdom in what is now Nigeria. Peterkingiron (talk) 18:26, 30 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Entirely appropriate topic for a stand-alone list. Montanabw^(talk) 20:27, 30 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, although the nominator is correct that the article as it stands is not very useful to the vast majority of readers. Srnec (talk) 21:20, 30 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I would second the post by User:Pldx1 concerning other lists in that case. Gryffindor (talk) 00:55, 31 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Delete I'd support keeping this as a pure list article (with no content other than hyperlinks to other WP articles), but I suspect that other editors would object to that. There are only 3 links to rulers of Ife; a more general, Nigeria-wide page is likely sufficient here. Power~enwiki (talk) 04:04, 31 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- Hyperlinks to other WP articles ? Could you be more explicit, please ? Pldx1 (talk) 09:03, 31 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  - Only Adesoji Aderemi, Olubuse II, and Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi appear to have stand-alone articles. If some of the other rulers mentioned have articles, I would withdraw my delete vote. Power~enwiki (talk) 14:23, 31 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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.