Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of famous people who caught yellow fever

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 no consensus. There are plenty of suggestions for further development below that may fix any problems with this list. After this has been attempted, Clarityfiend's concerns may be readdressed as their comment raises a potentially valid argument as to the appropriateness of the list's topic. postdlf (talk) 13:21, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

List of famous people who caught yellow fever[edit]

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"Famous" is WP:POV and such a list has not been the subject of signifcant coverage, and no, that does not include a cross-referencing web tool (see the page's external links). Ergo, this list fails WP:GNG --HyperGaruda (talk) 09:07, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. --HyperGaruda (talk) 09:07, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. --HyperGaruda (talk) 09:07, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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I started this page and will get around to completing it with the rest of the information I have, if that's justification for keeping it. I'll complete it within a month. JuanTamad (talk) 09:14, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:31, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:31, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. "Famous" is a red herring; if someone is sufficiently notable as to merit an article, they are "famous" enough. However, catching some disease is not reason enough for creating a list. There are a few diseases which may merit lists, e.g. List of syphilis cases, because they can affect their lives/minds permanently, but yellow fever isn't one of them, so nobody seems to have split it off from diseases in general. Clarityfiend (talk) 11:33, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Just rename the page so it doesn't have the word "famous" in the title, per all the lists in the category Category:Lists of people by medical condition, which this is one of. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 11:45, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment. The others in the category are long-term conditions. This is short-term. You either recover or you die within 7-10 days apparently.[1] Clarityfiend (talk) 15:57, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and work on a name change. The name seems to be the problem. we have Category:Deaths from yellow fever and this is just the list version which can be annotated and sorted in different ways. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 16:06, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It is not only the name, but also the fact that the list itself is a case of WP:SYNTHESIS (see part 2 of my deletion rationale). Do you really think that there are reliable sources that give such a list? --HyperGaruda (talk) 16:21, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You can flip a coin to decide if references exist, or you can do a Google search like I just did with a random one. No one is going to bother adding references until they know that the list is staying. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 17:38, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I don't doubt that there are biographical sources supporting the entries individually, but still none that list them together as a group. --HyperGaruda (talk) 04:50, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Repurpose as List of deaths from Yellow Fever, purging those who survived it. Peterkingiron (talk) 18:30, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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