Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of German Federal Ministers by longevity

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 delete. Indiscriminate list with trivial basis (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 11:35, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

List of German Federal Ministers by longevity

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Per corresponding deletion debates at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Presidents of Switzerland by longevity and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Formula One drivers by longevity: the two elements to this list (German Federal Minister and age at death) are unrelated. Therefore the list is WP:INDISCRIMINATE. I42 (talk) 18:49, 30 March 2010 (UTC) I42 (talk) 18:49, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 01:27, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 01:27, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nomination as other articles already removed for the same reason.--Jimbo W junior (talk) 02:09, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Fork of List of ministers of the Federal Republic of Germany; no distinguishable encyclopedic value. Being an impermanent appointed member of the federal cabinet has nothing to do with longevity. — Rankiri (talk) 14:16, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: I don't understand why we should deleted so many articels - is there a problem about space? Btw.: There are a lot of articels like this. Should they all be deleted?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_political_office-holders_by_age
--Statistician (talk) 22:39, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's not about space, it's about whether they adhere to guidelines and policy. I believe that there are very different articles in that category. Most concern themselves with age at investiture and that is relevent and non-discriminate - and very different to this article which concerns itself with age at death. As the term of office had finished by that point the two factors are not linked and therefore the list is indiscriminate. There are other articles like this and they need to be considered; I did not bring them all to AfD en masse because that would be disruptive. I42 (talk) 18:10, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. These AfD requests for "List of ... by longevity" come up every now and then. Take a look here for example: WP:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_United_States_Presidents_by_longevity_2nd_nom. I personally find no use in these lists other than being a curiosity. So I won't even vote on them, but instead just point this out. Nageh (talk) 20:15, 6 April 2010 (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.