Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people who were executed

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 of the debate was keep. – Rob e rt ^{T | @ | C} 04:24, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

List of people who were executed[edit]

This should be a category. In fact, it should be several categories. In fact, it already is several categories. See Category:Executed_people. Delete. TheMadBaron 22:52, 26 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, an intelligent list with dates and reasons is better than a dumb list without them. Kappa 22:58, 26 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Merge into Category:Executed_people per nom Dbchip 23:04, 26 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep There is actually a Category:Lists of people who were executed; therefore this can be remade as a list of lists. CanadianCaesar 23:30, 26 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep; not the worst list I have seen. Expand though Renata3 23:33, 26 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, make into a list of lists as per CanadianCaesar. Thryduulf 23:50, 26 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as a list of lists. BD2412 T 00:30, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
Keep — encyclopedic; verifyable. — RJH 01:38, 27 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Categories do not replaces lists. CalJW 08:49, 27 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as per nom Bwithh 20:12, 27 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Kappa, Canadian Ceasar, and WP:CLS. Jacqui ^★ 21:43, 27 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Pedantic remark The sentence is executed, not the person. Better titles would be "List of persons whose death sentence was executed," "List of people receiving the death penalty" or "List of people subjected to capital punishment." Dpbsmith (talk) 22:22, 27 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as per CalJW. Seano1 02:55, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Categories are unable to sort them by crime. Sjakkalle (Check!) 09:21, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Executed people does just that.... TheMadBaron 09:46, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You are right. Let's try again: The category cannot list people by execution date. Sjakkalle (Check!) 09:48, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Categories also cannot compute the average age of death of the people on the list, cast their horoscopes, or toast bagels. What's your point? Categories were created precisely in order to replace lists, which were perceived to be a maintenance nightmare. So, let's use them. Dpbsmith (talk) 23:43, 29 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I promise that if I see a List of horoscopes of people who were executed, I will vote to delete it. Seriously, listing people in chronological rather than alphabetical order isn't too far-fetched, and I think a list like we have here is still quite useful. Sjakkalle (Check!) 07:00, 30 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Izehar 20:59, 29 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep When I ran across it, I found it useful for my purposes. So it obviously has proved its worth in that it supplied me with needed information. Any article that can do that deserves a place. Xiivi 20:05, 30 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Keep - beautiful list, well researched, wonderfully well presented. Well done to the contributors for compiling it. One of the best articles I've seen on AFD for ages. Unanimous voting here so should close the Vfd. Zordrac 11:01, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Definite Keep - It's much better to have a comprehensive list like this one than solely a category. --Peter McGinley 00:24, 2 December 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.