Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Net legends

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 was delete. Sandstein 04:58, 1 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Net legends

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This is an entirely arbitrary list. Who is to say who is a 'net legend' and who is not? A list of every person who has become famous on the Internet would be too long to be manageable. This appears to be a list of people who were well-known in the early days of the Internet, but we already have the article Usenet celebrity for that, which provides descriptions rather than just names. For a more comprehensive list, we also have Category:Internet personalities. Compared to that article and that category, this list seems wholly redundant. Robofish (talk) 16:35, 24 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

(I should also note that the list was originally slightly longer, but I removed those whose articles have been deleted. Robofish (talk) 16:38, 24 August 2011 (UTC))[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. —Tom Morris (talk) 17:45, 24 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. —Tom Morris (talk) 17:45, 24 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete seems very ill-defined and likely to be a magnet for random self-publishers. For that matter, "legend" in the scientific sense means something or someone whose actual existence is somewhat doubtful. So I thought this would be an "urban myths" kind of list, not people who generally seemed to really exist, just post obnoxious articles. I would also add Internet pioneers for example as a bit better sourced variant with more encyclopedic standards. W Nowicki (talk) 00:25, 25 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. This is a headache waiting to happen for all of the reasons listed above. Tokyogirl79 (talk) 10:27, 25 August 2011 (UTC)tokyogirl79[reply]

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