Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people from Harrisburg

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. Walton^One 19:05, 22 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of people from Harrisburg[edit]

Unmaintainable and unverifiable list. Man It's So Loud In Here 19:32, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom as unverifiable list. Better suited as a category. (Oh, and which Harrisburg? I believe there're several more than just the one in PA.) Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps•Review?)} 19:38, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - definitely a better option to have this as a category. Tony Fox (arf!) 19:50, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:NOT#INFO. This is what categories are for. Nenyedi • ^{(Deeds•Talk)} 22:56, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Merge Most people don't know that it's the capital of Pennsylvania, let alone care that someone is from this place. However, in the spirit of civic pride, let the city's favorite sons and favorite daughters live in a Harrisburg Hall of Fame within the main article. Mandsford 23:59, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and categorize please. My preference for list of people from ____ is to categorize Corpx 03:59, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This list is annotated and structured, and so complements, rather than duplicates the category (see WP:CLS), and it meets the stand-alone list guidelines. Harrisburg is a redirect to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, so there's no reason to assume that the Harrisburg referenced in this article's title would be any other Harrisburg (and if there was, then a disambiguation link could be added to the top of the article). I don't see why the list would be "unmaintainable and unverifiable" as long as the list is limited to those people who are notable and are verifiably from Harrisburg. Finally, no policy-based reason has been given to delete other than WP:NOT#INFO which says nothing applicable to lists of people based on city of origin. DHowell 23:09, 20 August 2007 (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.