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2016 Canadian honours

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Wikipedia as not catalog. Every country has various minor military and civil decorations and awards issued to hundreds of people. Usually we do not list nonnotable people in wikipedia article. Not to say it is based solely on WP:PRIMARY sources. --Altenmann >talk 21:30, 10 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Awards and Canada. Shellwood (talk) 21:44, 10 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: There's no links for most of these people listed, so I don't see the need for a list. Oaktree b (talk) 22:28, 10 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - this is a useful list for the most senior honors. I'm happy to cut this back and tighten up the inclusion standards to only list the most senior awards. Let me know what you all think.--A. B. ^{(talk • contribs • global count)} 22:46, 10 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
- Just put the lists of notable persons into articles by notable awards and do not need sort by year. I didnt pay attention you have may other yearly lists. I will nominate all of them shortly. --Altenmann >talk 02:33, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 00:03, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: These articles need to be cleaned up, not deleted. Canadian honours is very obviously a notable topic, and is discussed in great detail across a wide variety of publications, online and print. The question is where the scope of the articles should end - and that's not a question to be decided at AfD. Please note that we have about 20 years worth of these articles, this isn't the only one... I quite frequently check them myself. I would suggest that some discussion be had regarding coming up with a solution that makes the entire lot better, rather than getting rid of this single year. MediaKyle (talk) 21:32, 16 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
- If an individual honor is notable, it deserves an article. Please cite sources which discuss "2016 canadian honors" as a separate subject. --Altenmann >talk 21:59, 16 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: The article has been reported by multiple reliable, secondary news networks:

[1] (CBC News)

[2] (The Canadian Press) Imperatorhobbes (talk) 02:48, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

False. Both refs are specifically about the Order of Canada, not about "Canadian honours" in general. --Altenmann >talk 03:22, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Which is a smaller section of the article subsumed within the greater article. I suppose you could change the topic to "2016 Order of Canada Honours", but that far less broad. Imperatorhobbes (talk) 13:04, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(Just notifying @Ctjj.stevenson, the creator of this article) Imperatorhobbes (talk) 13:26, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Clean-up and keep: I agree with MediaKyle here that there needs to be a lot of clean-up, but it is notable for important honours. The question is really which ones need to be removed, but that isn't in the scope of AfDs Rhinocrat^t _c 15:12, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep satisfies NLIST; not every member of a list has to be notable for the list itself to be notable. Agree that cleanup required, but that's not the point of AfD. Regards, --Goldsztajn (talk) 04:29, 18 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - agree with others that this satisfies the basic elements of a list article. It could be improved with individualized citations to each honour and member, however it does not appear to be necessary when looking through the various British Honour Lists (see: random selections 2006, 1932). - Caddyshack01 (talk) 01:19, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Why just this one and not all the others in Category:Canadian honours by year and similar lists for other countries? Clearly satisfies WP:GNG. -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:39, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep notable topic, not a mere useless list as it may seem. Never-ending string (talk) 14:12, 6 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: This was never closed or relisted and remained open. I am relisting it on a new AFD day log so hopefully it will be closed properly.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Here2rewrite (talk) 23:35, 6 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Per Category:Canadian honours by year Wikipedia has been listing these for years. No valid reason is given to suddenly stop. — Maile (talk) 23:53, 6 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete indiscriminate list of cruft, just like the others in its category. Inherently against WP:NOTDIR. These should never have existed and now it's time for them to meet their fate. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 21:42, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]