Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Algerians

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The result was keep. — Cirt (talk) 00:12, 30 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

List of Algerians

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List consists predominantly of original research and lacks any sources. Most of the modern people included on the list raise BLP issues, and sources (that are not referenced) for the ancient ones refer to them as Numidian. Once all unreferenced entries are removed per WP:LISTPEOPLE this page will be blank. -- Selket ^Talk 23:33, 22 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Entirely unsourced information. Perhaps some of the current politicians could be kept pending a citation that Algerian citizens can only run for office (I only assume this to be true, though). As Selket stated, early rulers of Numidia are problematic entries because it now makes up current-day parts of Tunisia and Morocco. I Jethrobot (talk) 23:55, 22 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. — • Gene93k (talk) 01:19, 23 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, possibly speedy keep because I fail to see any valid deletion rationale here. Are you claiming that it is unverifiable whether anyone is an Algerian or not? Unsourced at present ≠ OR, particularly not when the information may be sourced in the subjects' own articles, just not in this list at present. The standard is verifiable, not verified. Whether Numidians should or shouldn't be included in this list is an editing decision based on how reliable sources treat them, and in any event not a cause for deleting the list if the most extreme solution would just be to remove them from it. And do you intend to eventually nominate for deletion the Category:Algerian people category structure, and possibly all articles in Category:Lists of people by nationality? I'm aware of no consensus against these, nor any discussion establishing that the proper way to fix such verifiable lists is to blank them and/or nominate them for deletion, but given Selket's recent contributions, it seems like he's starting a broad campaign against indexes of article subjects by nationality. To what end and purpose, I cannot tell. postdlf (talk) 14:30, 23 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Perfectly good subject for a list, many are easily sourced, some already sourced in their own articles. WP:LISTPEOPLE does not state that people should be removed if sources are not cited in the list itself.--Michig (talk) 16:59, 23 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- And even if it did, we'd fix it by tagging it and then taking the time to add sources to the list. See also related comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Andorrans, and Talk:List of Bulgarians#Removal of names from the list. postdlf (talk) 18:13, 23 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Keep So long as the individual articles are sourced, this is neither unsourced nor original information. 23:44, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
Speedy/Snow Keep Is Algeria a notable place? Definitely. Are there notable people from there? Sure. Maybe there are people on the list who are not, but that does not mean the article needs to go. Eauhomme (talk) 16:12, 26 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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