Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of entertainers who performed for American troops in Vietnam

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The result was no consensus. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 03:55, 21 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

List of entertainers who performed for American troops in Vietnam[edit]

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An endless, indiscriminate list. This would be fine as a category, but not a list article. Doc Quintana (talk) 12:41, 7 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to United Service Organizations#Vietnam War, which already lists the most important entertainers. --Explodicle (T/C) 19:08, 7 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment does anyone know around how many entertainers performed in Vietnam? If the list would be sprawling and indiscriminate than it should be redirected to the main USO article, where the notable achievements can be evaluated. If there were only a limited amount of entertainers, than I think a list of all of them would be reasonable. Them From Space 21:33, 7 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

~~The USO article says more than 5,000. --Explodicle (T/C) 23:02, 7 December 2009 (UTC)~~[reply]

Thats performances, not entertainers. Them From Space 23:13, 7 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, unnecessary and not encyclopedic lists. Someidiot (talk) 23:26, 8 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Tim Song (talk) 00:20, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Relisting comment: The header of this AfD was malformed and has been fixed. Please consider this the first week of discussion for relisting purposes. Thanks. Tim Song (talk) 00:21, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Totally unsourced, indiscriminate list with no context. Since there's a section in the USO article, and this adds zero to that, no reason for this list to exist. Mandsford (talk) 03:54, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or Redirect. There's nothing indiscriminate about it. It is a limited list of people with clear inclusion guidelines for something that is an important part of American culture and history. That said, a whole bunch of artists is already verified and covered elsewhere. If someone can confirm the other names and expand it in some sort of table with dates, rather than just a couple of names, I can totally see a list surviving. Until then, I support a redirect. I was totally unaware of USO before I read the comments, and you can't expect anyone looking for artists who performed in Vietnam to find the existing information without a redirect with a more logical name. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:22, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Mgm. A chronology would certainly be more useful, but if the article is suppressed with a redirect, then whence the editors to improve it? A link from United_Service_Organizations#Vietnam_War rather than to it makes more sense. Yappy2bhere (talk) 22:15, 16 December 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.