Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Famous pnemonia deaths

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The result of the debate was keep (no consensus) and move to better title. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 20:37, 30 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Famous pnemonia deaths

WP is not a repository of lists, and this list will never be comprehensive nor complete, and "famous" is automatically in danger of being POV. Master Thief Garrett 07:10, 19 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, POV - criteria for inclusion not defined, unmaintainable list. Megan1967 07:31, 19 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and merge some material to Pneumonia. There are certainly people who notably died of pneumonia, like William Henry Harrison (contracted it during his inauguration) and Jim Henson (died unexpectedly amid acquistion talks with Disney), but the list as proposed won't work. Gazpacho 08:16, 19 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: All the List of articles are aggravating, but this one doesn't even manage to spell the name of the disease right. (Misspell anywhere but the title.) Geogre 11:23, 19 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Defining 'famous' is inherently POV, and the name isn't even spelled properly Cynical 14:43, 19 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Yes, I noticed that, when I added the Log tag I just typed it in by hand and was mystified when it resulted in a red-link... Master Thief Garrett^Talk
Comment. I share MTG's dislike of list articles, but he's not correct when he claims "WP is not a repository of lists." On the contrary, we have thousands of lists, and they have fanatical supporters. You may succeed in deleting this list, since only its creator seems to care about it. But picking out a few unpopular lists to VfD makes almost no impact on overall "list pollution" and is just not a productive use of anybody's time. ---Isaac R 19:25, 19 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, rename and cleanup. Rick K 21:34, May 19, 2005 (UTC)
Keep excellent, useful list. Kappa 23:38, 19 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and rename. -Sean Curtin 01:26, May 20, 2005 (UTC)
Delete, useless list. Even if it were spelled correctly, the title implies it to be a list of people famous for dying of pneumonia (like William Henry Harrison), rather than a list of famous people who happened to die of pneumonia. Either way, it's not the kind of list thats actually useful for something. --Angr/_comhrá 07:05, 20 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, I fail to see the point. R adiant _* 11:05, May 20, 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Another POV useless list. Jayjg ^(talk) 21:33, 25 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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