Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of current United States governors by age

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The result was keep -- Samir 08:15, 14 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

List of current United States governors by age[edit]

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Delete per WP:NOTDIRECTORY -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 23:05, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. This is not a directory, it's a WP:LIST. I think it meets the requirements of WP:LISTPURP. The title is probably a misnomer. It's a sortable list, and can be sorted by state, name (although in the format first-name, last-name, that's not too useful), date of inauguration, age at present or at inauguration, length of service, etc. It probably should be renamed. TJRC (talk) 23:48, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. A valid list exists at List of current United States governors. We don't need separate ones for age, height, weight etc. -SpacemanSpiff 00:32, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- No one's suggesting height and weight, so those are red herrings. The one at issue here provides sorting by age, but also by useful information such as date of inauguration, length of term, etc. It seems somewhat misleadingly delete-worthy because of its misnomer title, which suggest that it is only sorted by age. TJRC (talk) 04:37, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - If that's the case, a merge of the two necessary columns to the main list is good enough (and I am not opposed to that). -SpacemanSpiff 13:56, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment i like having governors ages in the list, which can help a reader to understand the demographics of governors, which is not in the above mentioned list. however, this one seems to be extremely trivial in its detail (all the info on days and years/days is utterly trivial to my eye). i would support simply adding the governors ages to the above mentioned list, and deleting this as trivial and nonencyclopedic.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 02:29, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep A sortable table that provides additional information to supplement the sortable table in List of current United States governors. In some ways, it's superior to the other list (which allows the reader to sort the governors in alphabetical order by their first names, from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Tim Pawlenty, not terribly useful. The age and the length of service of a Governor is simply additional data. Ideally, the data from the tables should be combined into one, but a merger won't happen overnight. Mandsford (talk) 02:32, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep given they are all notable, it's hardly a directory. The only thing is that the title should indicate the range of information: not just age, but Date of birth, Date of inauguration, Age at inauguration, Length of gubernatorial term to date. All in all, a very useful list, and useful is a relevant criteria for lists bringing together data like this. DGG ( talk ) 03:34, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I had to agree about that days and years/days issue. I've edited the page to resemble most other age-sorting pages (U.S. presidents, Canadian prime ministers, etc) so that the days and years/days only appear in total lifespan. I also must say I did create this page with somewhat of a misnomer. Perhaps a move to a better title would be justified. Any suggestions? Bcperson89 (talk) 06:32, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per WP:LISTPURP, DGG, and TJRC. This is clearly the sort of information that is useful for our primary audience of high school and college students, but also the general public. Otherwise, merge into List of current United States governors. Bearian (talk) 19:49, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep see WP:LISTPURP Vartanza (talk) 04:40, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Merge in its entirety to List of current United States governors, although admittedly this is an editorial decision. The contents of the article deserve a place someplace within the encyclopedia. Although a spinout doesn't violate any guidelines, I think it would be more accessible from a centralized location. Them From Space 19:21, 11 November 2009 (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.