Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of female movie actors by name

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The result was delete. ✗plicit 10:33, 30 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

List of female movie actors by name[edit]

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I fail to see the rationale for this list's component sublists, and therefore this page. It's hopelessly incomplete because there are a lot of actresses in the 100+ year history of cinema, so a violation of WP:SALAT, i.e. "lists that are too general or too broad in scope". Also it adds nothing that a category wouldn't provide other than years. Clarityfiend (talk) 10:29, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

From a quick perusal, it also appears that only actresses who appeared in English-language films are currently included. Clarityfiend (talk) 10:45, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 10:44, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
It looks as though just the index article is nominated, it the nominator planning to nominate the following as well?

List of female movie actors by name: A

List of female movie actors by name: B

List of female movie actors by name: C

List of female movie actors by name: D

List of female movie actors by name: E–F

List of female movie actors by name: G

List of female movie actors by name: H–I

List of female movie actors by name: J–K

List of female movie actors by name: L

List of female movie actors by name: M

List of female movie actors by name: N–O

List of female movie actors by name: P–Q

List of female movie actors by name: R

List of female movie actors by name: S

List of female movie actors by name: T–V

List of female movie actors by name: W–Z. Ajf773 (talk) 10:52, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You were supposed to infer the sublists are included in the nomination (so I wouldn't have to go and manually add them). But I guess I have to. [Sigh] Clarityfiend (talk) 10:30, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

'Tis done. Clarityfiend (talk) 10:39, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. Ajf773 (talk) 09:46, 25 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as wildly overbroad and WP:INDISCRIMINATE. Dronebogus (talk) 10:56, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Actors and filmmakers, Women, and Lists of people. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 11:33, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect everything to lists of actresses since we do have cross-categorization lists, though this particular set of lists violates WP:NOTDIRECTORY as not being "a culturally significant phenomenon". Would prefer not to delete so these articles' page history could be reviewed to see if any of these names could be added to other lists at some point. Erik (talk | contrib) ^{(ping me)} 12:23, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all Hopelessly overbroad list that duplicates Lists of actresses and is not a plausible redirect. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 15:41, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Trivial and WP:NOTINFO.—Mythdon (talk • contribs) 20:21, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- My delete !vote includes the list provided by Ajf773. —Mythdon (talk • contribs) 11:38, 25 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Duplicate of Category:Film actresses. When the list is this long and there is little supplementary context, this is NOT what WP:CLT recommends. Reywas92^Talk 02:51, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete the set as per WP:NOTDIRECTORY, and redirect just List of female movie actors by name to Lists of actresses. -Kj cheetham (talk) 11:33, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all letter lists. Redirect List of female movie actors by name. Per WP:INDISCRIMINATE and WP:CLT. I'm not against lists but for this one the bar is too low and there is virtually no data beyond names. gidonb (talk) 18:52, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all per nominator and to summarise my earlier comments about bundling all the alphabetised sub-articles in the nomination. Ajf773 (talk) 09:46, 25 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete we already have various categories like Category:American film actresses, etc. At this level lists are not really maintanable, and splitting by nationality makes it easier to find what you are looking for.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:59, 25 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete A category works better for this purpose, as compared to a lengthy list that constantly requires updating. Scope too broad. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 13:41, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Is there a reason List of female movie actors by name: G isn't tagged? Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:11, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oops. I reversed the copy/paste parts. Fixed now. Clarityfiend (talk) 04:25, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete functionally identical to a category, no reason to also exist as a list article (or set thereof). --Jayron 32 13:55, 27 April 2022 (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.