Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of countries by intentional homicide rate by decade

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The result was delete‎. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 08:42, 27 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

List of countries by intentional homicide rate by decade[edit]

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Per WP:NOTDATABASE this concept is trying to do too much. This article tries to list every yearly murder rate ever published for each country. It's unreadable even though it's incomplete - if complete, it would house 20,000+ data points and no guidance to the reader on which parts are supposed to stick out. There are better ways to represent these data: perhaps line graph by region (neighbors rarely differ much). If any notable trends exist, then editors should make them obvious to readers, not just assail them with raw data. Wizmut (talk) 15:39, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Crime and Lists. Deltaspace⁴² (talk • contribs) 15:46, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete under WP:CROSSCAT and WP:NOTDB -- This exactly the kind of complex, intersectional list that makes it so hard to establish a firm policy on cross-categorical lists. As the nom suggests, it is trying to do too much. Cheers, Last1in (talk) 17:41, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Trying to do too much. I think some of the data here per country could be folded into the countries' respective articles on crime (if it was reliable and complete, which it doesn't seem to be, so let's not do that) and while I think the list without the 'by decade' part is fine, this is complicated and useless due to its inherent incompleteness spoiling the point. PARAKANYAA (talk) 21:20, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Too much of a trivia for encyclopaedia. Lorstaking (talk) 04:53, 21 December 2023 (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.