Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of recent United States Senators

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The result was delete. MBisanz ^talk 12:03, 12 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

List of recent United States Senators[edit]

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I believe this fails WP:LISTN. This article lists the senators from 1979 and it's title says "recent" even though it's out of date (this article only goes to 2007), This list is made from other lists, and I think it is unnecessary. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 21:36, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. "recent" is too hazy a criterion for a proper list. Clarityfiend (talk) 01:00, 5 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Agreed. There are full lists of both current and former US Senators. This is a very strange meta-list.--69.204.153.39 (talk) 22:25, 5 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. While I can see how somebody would think it's useful, I think it's a mess. Bearian (talk) 23:34, 5 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I agree that "recent" is an invalid inclusion criteria. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 01:08, 6 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Unnecessary list, vague inclusion criteria. Edison (talk) 15:53, 6 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Agree that "recent" is a vague criteria and this article isn't particularly useful Raskolnikov6 (talk) 09:50, 7 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete. There are already numerous lists of US Senators, so we're not losing any information — but "recent" isn't a helpful criterion on which to list people, as it's a shifting target. Bearcat (talk) 17:35, 8 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, unnecessary overlap with other lists (we have a list of all currently serving Senators, a list of all former Senators, lists by decade of birth or death, lists by state...) and "recent" is neither meaningful nor distinctive. Judging from the edit history, I think the original intent may have been for this to list all Senators; the title was subsequently changed to add "recent" by another editor based on the content at the time, which was probably just what the original editor had gotten around to adding before he lost interest. postdlf (talk) 22:17, 8 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - "Recent" is too vague here, as stated above, and we already have a list page of all currently serving Senators. CoffeeWithMarkets (talk) 03:28, 11 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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