Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of German Scientists by Century

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The result was keep‎. Star Mississippi 02:55, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

List of German Scientists by Century[edit]

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There exists Science and technology in Germany. Xx236 (talk) 10:54, 14 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Xx236 (talk) 10:54, 14 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Lists of people, Science, and Germany. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 11:46, 14 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - the editor who created this is very new and has other 'Lists of [Nationality] Scientists' that were deleted or draftified from the mainspace. However I don't think an equivalent of this list exists via Science and technology in Germany - but does there need to be? Either way, this article is not worth keeping in its current format. Kazamzam (talk) 12:23, 14 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep for the moment, and encourage merging new entries from List of German scientists. The full List of German scientists is rather unhelpful to readers. By splitting the list into time-periods, and providing very brief indications of what the person did/was, this new list helps readers find relevant articles. Imagine a reader who's interested in major figures of the 18th Century, or interested in astronomy. The List of German scientists is useless to them, but the new list will help them navigate rapidly to 18th C astronomers. Its entries are also blue-linked people. We should encourage this sort of helpful navigation aid. It may, however, be necessary either to rename the list as by historical period, or divide it truly by centuries. Elemimele (talk) 15:01, 14 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep and expand. This is so much more useful than List of German scientists that it should outright replace it, honestly. Encyclopedic (bluelinked) entries only, each with an informative blurblet, organized by one of the most likely search criteria (period) - what's not to like? For a listing by subject area, turn to Science and technology in Germany; but the two articles serve different purposes. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 16:03, 14 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:SALAT as far too broad. There are one heck of a lot of German scientists. Also delete List of German scientists, List of American scientists, List of British scientists, etc. for the same reason (only two with surnames beginning with A???). (If kept, fix the capitalization. We don't use German capitalization rules here.) Clarityfiend (talk) 10:12, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Elmidae. JeBonSer ^{(talk | sign)} 22:01, 17 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or merge with List of German scientists. Unannotated alphabetical lists are no more useful than categories, but lists broken up by period or specialization can be actually useful for navigation. Eluchil404 (talk) 22:54, 21 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep very useful as a navigation list, meets WP:CLN/AOAL. // Timothy :: talk 13:09, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, _signed,Rosguill ^talk 21:17, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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