Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people associated with the American Civil War

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The result was DELETE. postdlf (talk) 15:49, 30 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

List of people associated with the American Civil War[edit]

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The scope of this article overlaps with multiple already existing lists. The article also ambiguous and fails to define how a person is "associated" with the Civil War. Wild Wolf (talk) 19:08, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Too general and not useful. Intothatdarkness (talk) 19:14, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:32, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - ambiguous and hence almost unlimited. Let focussed lists and categories do the job.GraemeLeggett (talk) 19:19, 24 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Per nom - we already have several focussed lists in Category:Lists of the American Civil War and the poorly-limited scope could conceivably validate inclusion of everyone living in America at the time plus everyone who has ever written about it, staged a reenaction, been in a film about it, etc. etc. etc. ŞůṜīΣĻ¹98¹^Speak 23:07, 25 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. Nick-D (talk) 23:38, 25 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom: this article's scope is much too wide. Pretty much everybody who meets our notability criteria who lived in the US as an adult during the Civil War could potentially be added to this list. Nick-D (talk) 23:38, 25 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, as per above. Agricolae (talk) 00:37, 26 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Delete. "Associated with" carries no limiting function. I'm not sure who wouldn't be in the list, at least under some interpretations. There just is no utility in such a list. -- Lord Roem (talk) 03:05, 29 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, for all the reasons stated. 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (talk) 20:33, 29 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Many more names can be added which will be too hard to do. It is better to keep that job limited to CATs. →TSU ^tp* 04:22, 30 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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