Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lists of Americans

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The result was keep. no arguments for deletion aside the nom JForget 01:06, 8 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Lists of Americans

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There's a reason we have categories. This page is a list of lists, and doesn't actually contain encyclopedic content. —fetch ·comms 22:07, 1 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 22:34, 1 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Lists of lists are specifically allowed for at WP:STAND#Lists of lists. And WP:CLS tells us very clearly that categories do not supersede lists and that we should not delete one to promote the other. Colonel Warden (talk) 22:39, 1 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep A list of lists is just fine. It would be a different discussion if these were NN or redlinked, but they're not. Jclemens (talk) 00:14, 2 August 2010 (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.