Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lists of people by nationality

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The result was No Consensus, defaults to Keep Nakon 21:35, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Lists of people by nationality

Using the same argument as the ones used to delete the List of Colombians, none of these lists make sense. A category can group all the articles without needing a page. Not to mention that listing everybody in the world doesn't make any sense. Joedoedoe (talk) 16:21, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. -- the wub "?!" 19:01, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - this should be a category, not a list, as it has no purpose but to list other pages. Terraxos (talk) 04:06, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete The subject is too wide and would risk creation of sizeable and unmanageable lists better handled by categories. Ohconfucius (talk) 04:24, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep these are lists of notable people with WP articles, and this will not include everyone in the world. Most such lists have not been deleted. It is a useful organizational device unless we delete them all--which I certainly hope will never happen. Its like a super-category, which should not be deleted until its empty. Lists of lists is an alternate classification scheme here to categories, and there it is still a valid way to do things, though not currently quite as popular. DGG (talk) 19:18, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep although rename. I thought this was going to be a list of names arranged by nationality. It's not; it's a list of those lists, which is perfectly acceptable according to WP:MOSLIST#Lists of lists (although the redlinks would have to be removed). That this could be categorized is not a convincing argument per WP:CLS, which states that "these methods should not be considered to be in conflict with each other." Torc2 (talk) 22:21, 14 January 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.