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Lists of people

List of IndyCar Series drivers who never qualified for a race

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This grouping has not been described as a set by secondary sources, and as such WP:LISTN is not met here. PROD was removed by the creator so bringing this to AfD. Let'srun (talk) 20:26, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople, Lists of people, Sports, Motorsport, and Lists. Let'srun (talk) 20:26, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Fails LISTN and reads as OR. If the list is accurate, only one person attempted qualification more than once without qualifying, so this seems like CRUFT. I cannot find any secondary sources that cover the subject in depth, so also fails GNG and V. — Jkudlick ⚓ (talk) 20:34, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: I'm not a racing expert, but I'd expect the list to be much longer... This feels rather small for what it is. No sources talk about this,all I can find are wiki mirrors of this aritcle. Oaktree b (talk) 23:41, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep – The content of the lists is relevant, but there is a lack of sources for WP:V. Svartner (talk) 12:18, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete this article doesn't meet WP:LISTN, and is frankly just trivia. All but one of these people only tried to qualify once. If this were a notable topic, there would be proper sources talking about the entire list- which there isn't. Joseph2302 (talk) 13:28, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete – Oddly specific listicle, wholly unsourced, screams WP:FANCRUFT to me. Fun bit of trivia to those who care, but not something that belongs on Wikipedia. MSport1005 (talk) 14:11, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - It was created with Verifiable sources, every list is created from verifiable sources and not lifted from elsewhere that "covers" the topic of the list. -Drdisque (talk) 14:57, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

List of Champ Car drivers who never qualified for a race

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This grouping has not been described as a set by secondary sources, and WP:LISTN is not met here. PROD was removed by the creator so bringing this to AfD. Let'srun (talk) 20:25, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Lists of people, Sports, Motorsport, and Lists. Let'srun (talk) 20:25, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete this article doesn't meet WP:LISTN, and is frankly just trivia. All but one of these people only tried to qualify once. If this were a notable topic, there would be proper sources talking about the entire list- which there isn't. Joseph2302 (talk) 13:29, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. This and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of IndyCar Series drivers who never qualified for a race could've been nominated together. MSport1005 (talk) 14:13, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep It is a complement to and was created the same way as List of Champ Car drivers which nobody has an issue with. -Drdisque (talk) 15:01, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

List of World Rally Championship people

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Firstly, it's WP:TOOBROAD and could be a list of over a million names of people who would mostly not be notable. Secondly, there is only one source to suggest that the grouping itself is notable for inclusion as a list, but this appears to be a navigational structure of a website that contains a handful of biographies. Thirdly, it isn't useful as a contribution to human knowledge but is appearing to serve as a directory, which WP is not. Rally Wonk (talk) 17:48, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment: Relevant discussion at WikiProject World Rally

Rally Wonk (talk) 18:05, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 19:22, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 20:52, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Leaning delete - Right now this clearly falls under WP:NOTDIRECTORY, but it's possible that the scope of this article could be refined to not be WP:TOOBROAD and to make something more encyclopaedic, although it would likely need to be moved to a different title and substantially rewritten in that case, so there is just an argument for WP:TNT here. HumanBodyPiloter5 (talk) 00:39, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I expressed my opinion over that discussion already. Not too big of a sport to group all notable people in one place. Pelmeen10 (talk) 22:36, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

List of Mitchell Hamline School of Law alumni

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Fails NLIST; not even long enough to be a spin-off from Mitchell Hamline School of Law ꧁Zanahary꧂ 15:37, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Law and Minnesota. ꧁Zanahary꧂ 15:37, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment from the creator. My intention was to preserve the work of other editors who had assembled a list that seemed too long for the Mitchell Hamline School of Law article that I didn't feel I could responsibly prune. If this is not an appropriate spin-off, then by all means restore. Or — better yet! – restore with some principled cuts: right now the only criterion appears to be having a WP article. Patrick 🐈‍⬛ (talk) 15:46, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  Thanks for your comment. I did a scan for sources discussing MHSL's alumni as a group, per NLIST, and found nothing. Without that, this doesn't appear to constitute an independently notable topic. ꧁Zanahary꧂ 15:51, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, fair enough. I find lists embedded in articles without clear inclusion-criteria and sourcing to be, in the majority of cases, unhelpful and unencyclopedic. Usually I can either fix this or give a principled justification for wholesale removal. This one was too long, though, and includes unsourced entries of people who do seem notable as alumni. But if you reaffirm that it's your policy-based view I should restore to the parent article, I will do so and request a speedy deletion of this stand-alone list. Cheers, --Patrick 🐈‍⬛ (talk) 16:02, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I don't want to unilaterally commandeer this content, especially now that it's listed at AfD. Let's see what others say. ꧁Zanahary꧂ 16:46, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 18:46, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep because I think it makes the Mitchell Hamline School of Law page unwieldy and too long if you add it there. Added by Dflovett.
Keep - lists are valid if every single entry has an article, and the main article has become unwieldy, as is the case here. Bearian (talk) 13:23, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

List of Cairo Higher Institute of Cinema people

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Redundant to Category:Cairo Higher Institute of Cinema alumni Royal Autumn Crest (talk) 21:15, 3 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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It has different information because some of the people are different professions (e.g., directors, actors, writers), and it is easier to look up alumni/faculty by profession from the list. Also some people are on the list who are not in the category. Also some people in the list are faculty members and would not be included in the alumni category. static shakedown ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ 21:44, 3 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'd be willing to see the expansion of the category to include those people. I think a category is a better fit here unless there is secondary information about each person in the list that is necessary to understanding the group as a whole. Royal Autumn Crest (talk) 21:57, 3 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Strong keep There are a ton of lists that can be found through categories, like List of California Institute of Technology people. I don't see why this one would be an exception. User01938 (talk) 23:28, 3 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —Ganesha811 (talk) 21:40, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Left guide (talk) 22:08, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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