Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of descendants of Mayflower passengers

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The result was delete. Sandstein 13:24, 18 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

List of descendants of Mayflower passengers[edit]

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Per WP:NOTINDISCRIMINATE - tens of millions of American people have at least one ancestor who arrived in modern-day America on the Mayflower The ~25 entries aren't all sourced, even on the article pages. power~enwiki (π, ν) 04:28, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 04:34, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 04:34, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. Hhkohh (talk) 05:08, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. The General Society of Mayflower Descendants "has established a network of more than 150,000 descendants". Even a tiny fraction that qualify as notable would still be too many. Clarityfiend (talk) 06:45, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - this seems a prime example of WP: LISTCRUFT. Vorbee (talk) 07:41, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
My ancestors came over on the S.S. Minnow. Randy Kryn (talk) 11:02, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. Agricolae (talk) 16:21, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Abstain. I abstain. Yet another sockpuppet of Blu Aardvark's Incorrigible Troll fursona, posting from 174.255.130.171 (talk) 16:26, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - for the reasons given above. It is not clear that even at the time when the passengers were still living they or their descendants held a special status among their peers, and thus this genealogical datum provides no insight into understanding the descendants, nor do they represent a societal grouping that is in any way distinctive or informative. Descent from a Mayflower passenger is just genealogical trivia, and Wikipedia is WP:NOTGENEALOGY. Agricolae (talk) 16:31, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
delete it before it spreads it may not be completely indiscriminate, but a list which contains mostly otherwise utterly non-notable people is a terrible idea. Mangoe (talk) 16:50, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:NOTINDISCRIMINATE and WP:NOTGENEALOGY. Ajf773 (talk) 22:12, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:NOTGENEALOGY. Just about any US person with long US roots can trace (at times by mistake) a Mayflower ancestor in a family tree project.Icewhiz (talk) 06:46, 12 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - for all the reasons argued above. A list which could have potentially thousands of entries and it is unclear that the individuals listed considered their descent notable. Dunarc (talk) 22:16, 12 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Fails WP:NOTGENEALOGY Snowycats (talk) 04:35, 15 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete -- We deleted descendants of Queen Victoria and of George III long ago; and this is much worse. There will be 1,000s of people who might be listed. Peterkingiron (talk) 16:30, 15 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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