Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people on the postage stamps of the Cook Islands

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The result was delete. ✗plicit 12:41, 9 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

List of people on the postage stamps of the Cook Islands[edit]

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Fails WP:LISTN. Also: abandoned and extremely incomplete (in case you wonder: the Cook Islands still produce stamps, and have put many people on their stamps since, er, 1949). A disservice to the few readers of this article. Fram (talk) 12:29, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Lists of people and Oceania. Fram (talk) 12:29, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This list is incomplete. I know of one person who was pictured on a stamp in the 1990s who is not listed here. This list is inadequate and that is a sign of triviality and a lack of reliable sourcing.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:28, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Without me commenting on notability, saying that an article should be deleted on the basis of it needing something added does not seem like a good justification to delete. Improvement should always be prioritised before deletion, when possible. CT55555 (talk) 15:45, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- - The article is a collection of trivia. We do not have secondary sources that treat the whole subject as something worthy of a list. However an article existing this long that claims to be complete but is not even close is very much misleading Wikipedia users. It is a net negative.John Pack Lambert (talk) 04:31, 5 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as failing WP:LISTN. Rubbish computer Ping me or leave a message on my talk page 16:17, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete No evidence whatsoever exists that this meets WP:NLIST, as already stated: not in this AfD, and not in the article. Otherwise, this and all similar pages fail WP:NOTDIRECTORY (as generally "Simple listings without contextual information showing encyclopedic merit."); and furthermore, because having this is definitively a WP:BADIDEA (as evidenced by the fact people keep citing the existence of these lists as a reason to keep having them even when they fail inclusion criteria), as Wikipedia is not a philatelical catalogue and there is no indication how this kind of page is of any broader encyclopedic significance. An encyclopedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information, even if it is true, and despite it possibly being interesting to a limited number of dedicated philatelical enthusiasts. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 16:02, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete yet again, no one has proven how this could meet WP:SALAT. As it stands, it's an unsourced directory with no indication as to why it's a topic worth cataloging even if the contents therein can be verified. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 20:05, 6 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Fails NLIST. Avilich (talk) 02:50, 8 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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