Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of University of Maryland, College Park alumni

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The result of the debate was Merge to List of University of Maryland, College Park people. Physchim62 (talk) 14:21, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

List of University of Maryland, College Park alumni[edit]

list duplicates Category:University of Maryland, College Park alumni, every person on list with own article is listed in category

Delete; per nomination. -James Howard (talk/web) 18:15, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nomination. --Robby 19:08, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep list, merge with other UofM people lists, and delete the categories instead. Annotated lists, sorted according to academic discipline or area of activity/work, are far better for this type of information than categories. u p p l a n d 20:18, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree that they are better. Some people may exist as alumni of multiple institutions. Therefore, adding them to multiple alumni categories allows that to be cross-references (and, if working with a data dump, analyzed) much more freely. -James Howard (talk/web) 20:45, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Categories are not annotated, this list is. The category gives no indication of why the people in it are notable. Also the list includes several notable people who do not yet have articles, making this list a useful development tool per Wikipedia:Lists. Dsmdgold 22:12, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Categories and lists are not mutually exclusive, see Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and series boxes. And there are plenty of similar lists in Category:Lists of people by university affiliation - USA. The more common technique, however, seems to be to create List of University of X people, so these three should probably be merged into a List of University of Maryland, College Park people. Flower party■ 22:23, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Merge if we must have listcruft let's have just the one. But the definition of notable seems to differ form the normal Wikipedia one. Just zis Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] :: AfD? 22:32, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, the category is sufficient and doesn't encourage the creation of articles on non-notable alumni. -- Kjkolb 23:32, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Rename per Flowerparty. --Vsion 00:42, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and Rename as per Flower. --Nicodemus75 07:00, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and Rename as per Flower. --tomf688^{talk} 05:21, 13 November 2005 (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.