Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of sisters

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 - No Consensus. If this returns to AfD I would strongly encourage participants to write more than [[WP:ACRONYM]]. - Peripitus (Talk) 12:00, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

List of sisters

Indiscriminate, far from complete list. Tagged for cleanup with rationale of "it lacks a clear purpose" since December 2007 with no improvement whatsoever. Note also that there is no corresponding List of brothers; if there were, it would have the same problems with lack of focus and sources. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells• Otter chirps • HELP!)} 22:49, 31 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete junk. JuJube (talk) 23:59, 31 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:INDISCRIMINATE - C L — 00:25, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Before commenting, it helps to look at the article. This is not an indiscriminate list, intended to contain all sisters n the world, nor even one forall sisters who hapn to b for some reason together or separately notable at Wikipedia. It is a list of notable women with articles wheich are eithr known spcifically as sisters (such as sister acts in entertianmnt) or have such obvious and much-discussed relatioships as the Bronté sisters. It's a small list, and will get larger to the extent other people do the work to identify more such pairs. Objections to items can be as usual raised on the talk page. As most of the relevant people will be in popular entertainment, which is not my field, I am reluctant to be the one to create the equally appropriate List of brothers. DGG (talk) 00:31, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - I did look at the article. I doubt it could ever be complete, even if it is just for notable sisters - C L — 00:39, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment There have been many entertainers and performers on stage, film and television, either biological or not, known as "Sisters." Others, just as famous, shone in literature and dance. Still other sisters are noted athletically. This does not look like the makings of an encyclopedic article. JuJube (talk) 01:20, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - there seems to be no criteria for adding sisters - for example, I don't think Zooey Deschanel and Emily Deschanel are "known spcifically[sic] as sisters" or have "obvious and much-discussed relatioships"[sic]. I think Category:Sibling duos adequately covers the sisters who worked as a duo. Somno (talk) 01:29, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Both the Brontés and Andrews sisters were threesomes. Colonel Warden (talk) 06:11, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Imperfection or inaction are not adequate reasons to delete. The topic has much potential. Colonel Warden (talk) 06:11, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Per WP:INDISCRIMINATE--Ave Caesar (talk) 12:33, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep I see the point of an article listing "entertainers and performers on stage, film and television, either biological or not, known as 'Sisters.'" such as the McGuire Sisters and the The Lennon Sisters. I would limit the article to these, and not mix in persons individually known who also happen to have notable sisters, when they are not known professionally as "The --- Sisters," such as Britney and Jamie Lynn Spears, who I have never heard of performing as "The Spears Sisters." As an alternative, a category of "sister groups" could be created (regardless of whether they are biologically sisters. Genetic tests are rarely published to prove that "biological" sisters really are, anyway).Edison (talk) 17:47, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, this is better as a category. The category "sibling duos" could be changed to include more than two, or a super-category could be created. Fee Fi Foe Fum (talk) 20:00, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp | talk to me 00:16, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This would be an acceptable topic, given that there are certain groups of sisters who are notable individually and as sisters, from the Brontes to Abby and Ann Landers to Mary Kate and Ashley. Sadly, in the last two years it's never been more than an indiscriminate list, and I can't say that I'll be too broken up if this article is deleted. However, it is notable when siblings achieve fame, sometimes independently of each other, sometimes as a team, sometimes when one rides the coattails of the other, and a well-written list would be encyclopedic. Mandsford (talk) 00:46, 2 August 2008 (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.