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Sparsely populated category-list with weird scope (geologists are people in a very specific scientific discipline, explorers are anyone who travels to places that are poorly known in their native land— what is the connection here?)
Dronebogus (
talk) 18:09, 21 June 2023 (UTC)reply
Keep 16 notable people with their own Wikipedia articles, makes is a valid list. The article for
Cornish people shows how they are considered distinct from others.
DreamFocus 15:37, 22 June 2023 (UTC)reply
That doesn’t answer my question of why “geologist” and “explorer” are considered related. We don’t need to keep every list with 3+ blue links if there’s no evidence of notability.
Dronebogus (
talk) 13:17, 23 June 2023 (UTC)reply
There are only two explorers listed here. They can be removed and the article renamed. When there aren't enough explorers to fill their own article, they are just kept at
List of explorers. One of them is there already, I'll add the other to that list.
DreamFocus 14:38, 23 June 2023 (UTC)reply
Split into two separate lists, possibly merge the resulting content into broader scope articles like
List of Cornish scientists or
List of explorers if the resulting lists would be too short to have their onw pages. "This should be a category" isn't a valid reason to delete a list per
WP:NOTDUPE, but this covers two separate topics (explorers and geologists) with little relationship to each other and little reason for them to be combined into one page.
163.1.15.238 (
talk) 14:51, 23 June 2023 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, LizRead!Talk! 23:05, 28 June 2023 (UTC)reply
Delete - Cornwall nowadays is just a region at the southwest corner of England. Briefly skim our
constitutional status of Cornwall article for an overview why administratively it's been just another part of England for centuries and how the Cornish language faded from common usage in the 18th century. Attempts to gain autonomy for Cornwall like Scotland or Wales have fizzled due to lack of local support.
We don't have lists like this for other regions or counties of England and there's no reason to believe a Cornish geologist, philanthropist or architect is going to be different from their other English counterparts. The list serves no purpose.
In short, this list fails
WP:NOT, specifically
WP:CROSSCAT. In other words, Wikipedia is not "non-encyclopedic cross-categorizations". (Technically, this is a list, not a category but the notability discussion at
WP:LISTN references WP:CROSSCAT and suggests the same rationale for deleting similar lists.)
Delete per A. B. Does not appear to be a grouping recognized in reliable sources -- or even two separate recognized groupings. One caveat: I note that a couple of items
have recently been merged into
List of Cornish scientists (the others were already there) -- I don't think the descriptions have sufficient originality to require preserving their edit history, but the closer may want to take a closer look. If there is a need for preservation, a redirect would do no harm. --
Visviva (
talk) 02:31, 30 June 2023 (UTC)reply
Delete: The other issue is that this is an incomplete list that could be accomplished with a tag, and given
WP:CROSSCAT and
WP:DIRECTORY's primary message, "Wikipedia is not a directory," this would fail the test.
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
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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
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Sparsely populated category-list with weird scope (geologists are people in a very specific scientific discipline, explorers are anyone who travels to places that are poorly known in their native land— what is the connection here?)
Dronebogus (
talk) 18:09, 21 June 2023 (UTC)reply
Keep 16 notable people with their own Wikipedia articles, makes is a valid list. The article for
Cornish people shows how they are considered distinct from others.
DreamFocus 15:37, 22 June 2023 (UTC)reply
That doesn’t answer my question of why “geologist” and “explorer” are considered related. We don’t need to keep every list with 3+ blue links if there’s no evidence of notability.
Dronebogus (
talk) 13:17, 23 June 2023 (UTC)reply
There are only two explorers listed here. They can be removed and the article renamed. When there aren't enough explorers to fill their own article, they are just kept at
List of explorers. One of them is there already, I'll add the other to that list.
DreamFocus 14:38, 23 June 2023 (UTC)reply
Split into two separate lists, possibly merge the resulting content into broader scope articles like
List of Cornish scientists or
List of explorers if the resulting lists would be too short to have their onw pages. "This should be a category" isn't a valid reason to delete a list per
WP:NOTDUPE, but this covers two separate topics (explorers and geologists) with little relationship to each other and little reason for them to be combined into one page.
163.1.15.238 (
talk) 14:51, 23 June 2023 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, LizRead!Talk! 23:05, 28 June 2023 (UTC)reply
Delete - Cornwall nowadays is just a region at the southwest corner of England. Briefly skim our
constitutional status of Cornwall article for an overview why administratively it's been just another part of England for centuries and how the Cornish language faded from common usage in the 18th century. Attempts to gain autonomy for Cornwall like Scotland or Wales have fizzled due to lack of local support.
We don't have lists like this for other regions or counties of England and there's no reason to believe a Cornish geologist, philanthropist or architect is going to be different from their other English counterparts. The list serves no purpose.
In short, this list fails
WP:NOT, specifically
WP:CROSSCAT. In other words, Wikipedia is not "non-encyclopedic cross-categorizations". (Technically, this is a list, not a category but the notability discussion at
WP:LISTN references WP:CROSSCAT and suggests the same rationale for deleting similar lists.)
Delete per A. B. Does not appear to be a grouping recognized in reliable sources -- or even two separate recognized groupings. One caveat: I note that a couple of items
have recently been merged into
List of Cornish scientists (the others were already there) -- I don't think the descriptions have sufficient originality to require preserving their edit history, but the closer may want to take a closer look. If there is a need for preservation, a redirect would do no harm. --
Visviva (
talk) 02:31, 30 June 2023 (UTC)reply
Delete: The other issue is that this is an incomplete list that could be accomplished with a tag, and given
WP:CROSSCAT and
WP:DIRECTORY's primary message, "Wikipedia is not a directory," this would fail the test.
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.