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YouTube suspensions

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Fails WP:NLIST—I cannot find any sources discussing persons or channels suspended from YouTube as a group. ꧁Zanahary꧂ 07:03, 10 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The article also appears to contain factual errors—at random, the inclusion of Shane Dawson is false, as the source says his channel was demonetized, not suspended. Such falsehoods could constitute BLP violations. ꧁Zanahary꧂ 07:05, 10 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It is okay to delete this list. If there is a lack of reliable, secondary sources about how many channels have been suspended from YouTube, then it might be strange to have an article listing YouTube suspensions. Plus, this article has been so big that, unless if one watches it, it has been hard to detect the multiple issues against Wikipedia's policy on the biographies of living persons that the article attracts. The suspensions from YouTube may already be mentioned on articles about channels or people with YouTube channels.

So...

you can delete this. CarlFilip19 (talk) 08:02, 10 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Major League Rugby Player of the Year

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Not a notable topic on it's own, very minimal content. All content can be merged to Major League Rugby under a new section titled Awards (or similar) Louis (talk) (contribs) 22:10, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Looks like a section on this already exists on Major League Rugby Louis (talk) (contribs) 22:11, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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List of Muslim Nobel laureates

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WP:OR, most of the people on this list aren’t actually Muslim. Non notable list as noted on its talkpage. It contained unreliable references including Answers.com. Thepharoah17 (talk) 17:43, 9 June 2025 (UTC) I’ll note last time it was nominated for deletion in a bundle 18 years ago and that was closed as delete. And then it was nominated again in a bundle with other articles three years ago and that was closed as no consensus. Thepharoah17 (talk) 17:46, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete - Non-encyclopedic cross-categorizations. — Maile (talk) 23:08, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - classic WP:SYNTH. Bearian (talk) 00:45, 10 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Past Sharks junior squads

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Almost all of the players in this list are not notable. Louis (talk) (contribs) 15:01, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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This is false. They are notable in so far as they record who played for a major club side, some of which end up playing for other teams. If that information is not recorded then it is lost, making it impossible to track player development and also maintain the history of a significant rugby club. For me this is like removing films from a director's filmography because they are not critically acclaimed. Whybeetoo (talk) 18:30, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Per WP:RU/N they are not notable. "Youth players are not notable unless they satisfy one of the statements above, or if they can be shown to meet the wider requirements of WP:GNG." See Wikipedia:WikiProject Rugby union/Notability#Biographies. Louis (talk) (contribs) 20:10, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

But these are not Biographies? And so that section doesnt apply. This is a page that allows the tracking of player development over an extended period, allowing a reader to understand the health of a junior system. Its not a list of biographies. Secondly these are not youth players, these are professionally contracted rugby players, all above the age of 18. Whybeetoo (talk) 21:00, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also, WP:SIGCOV. A google search of "Sharks Junior Squad" reveals minimal results with all those relating to this topic being from primary sources. A new catogary would be better suited for this ie: Category:Sharks (rugby union) junior players (or similar) for any players that pass GNG of WP:RU/N Louis (talk) (contribs) 22:07, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If you google the component teams of the Junior Squad you get substantial mentions from multiple sources. This includes multiple independently sourced press coverage. Sharks u21, u20, u19 etc. The Junior Squad is just a catch all term for players contracted but eligible for these teams. The mentions are not trivial or in passing, they are articles specifically written about these teams and often these players. Whybeetoo (talk) 22:43, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

List of mayors of Auburn, Washington

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Does not meet WP:NLIST due to a lack of coverage as a group by reputable sources. The lone book source listed is self-published, and the other sources concern individual mayors rather than the collective group. Disputed PROD. Sounder Bruce 00:43, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep The criteria are being applied in a perverse manner that is inconsistent with Wikipedia practice. See Lists of mayors by country. Mayors are often notable, but certainly a complete list of the holders of a notable local office can generally be established for any decent sized municipality. Per WP:CSC point 2, if for some reason this isn't kept, it should be merged into Auburn, Washington as several of the other lists of mayors are incorporated into their cities' articles. Jclemens (talk) 04:25, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete or merge to Auburn, Washington. None of the names on the list is notable enough for their own page, so aggregating them into a standalone list article is pointless. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 10:51, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - There are many, many such mayor lists on Wikipedia. Please see Category:Lists of mayors and Category:Lists of mayors of places in the United States - this is just he tip of the mayoral lists on Wikipedia. We don't have the editorial resources to clean up all of these. Go with the flow of what already exists. — Maile (talk) 11:44, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This is an extremely misinformed keep rationale. We do have the resources to clean up all of these and we should not just go with the flow because other things exist. Esolo5002 (talk) 22:54, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or merge to Auburn, Washington. A verifiable list of mayors could be a valid WP:SPINOFF from a main page about a city (alternatively, a list of mayors could be a collapsable list). There may be some desire to clarify NLIST as it applies to lists of officeholders. --Enos733 (talk) 16:52, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
merge to Auburn, Washington#Government as is the usual solution for smaller places where neither the mayoralty nor its officeholders are notable. Mangoe (talk) 21:25, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ritter (titular name)

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Fails WP:SALAT for being too broad. ~~We don't have lists of people simply because they have a relatively lowly aristocratic title.~~ Clarityfiend (talk) 02:20, 6 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Update. Well, upon further looking, lists do go down as far as knights. However, the inclusion criterion is very odd: "only those whose main Wikipedia article includes the titular 'Ritter' in the article name", so I'm thinking it fails due to WP:NLIST. Clarityfiend (talk) 03:44, 6 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
There is an important difference between a ritter and a knight. Ritter-hood is inherited, so it says nothing about the achievements of the individual who has the name (beyond that they managed to get born). Knighthoods are conferred on an individual for doing something (even if it's only being a successful civil servant who achieved retirement-age) so it carries a bit of personal weight. A list of knights is therefore more meaningful than a list of ritters. Elemimele (talk) 10:12, 6 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Ritter-hood is inherited, so it says nothing about the achievements of the individual who has the name (beyond that they managed to get born) is now my favorite quote from AfD. Toadspike [Talk] 11:16, 6 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete because it's a sort of synthesis, and not really a viable navigational list. These people are mostly notable for something entirely unrelated to the Ritter in their name. Even if they all take their nobility seriously, the list would be analogous to making an article Notable British people who happen to come from a family where someone got knighted. If our readers were likely (which I don't believe) to be looking for the intersection ("Notable" AND "Ritter-in-name") then it would be a reasonable navigational list. Otherwise, unless people have written about the intersection, it's a synthesis. Elemimele (talk) 10:09, 6 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete for having really weird inclusion criteria. It seems like more could be written about the "Ritter von ..." name format, but it's probably most suitable for the main Ritter article. Toadspike [Talk] 11:17, 6 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Patrick McDermott (disambiguation)

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Unnecessary DAB page in which one article/redirect is the Primary Topic and there is only one other article/redirect/page. Also, doesn't matter what we call it as long as we all know what I mean by article/redirect and article/redirect/page. Servite et contribuere (talk) 20:12, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep. I've added two more people. One's a bit iffy, but the other is solid. (I've left out the senior enlisted leader of the United States Air Force Band because that seems like a transient position.) Clarityfiend (talk) 22:54, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Keep 4 valid entries. Boleyn (talk) 08:56, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Do you know for a fact that the musician Paddy McDermott is a Patrick? Clarityfiend (talk) 09:03, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep all a disambiguation needs is two or more people with the same name.

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Tottenham Hotspur F.C. Premier League player list

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Per WP:NOTSTATS and content forking. Given that List of Tottenham Hotspur F.C. players exists, a separate list covering just the Premier League seems unnecessary. Sir Sputnik (talk) 22:01, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Merge with List of Tottenham Hotspur F.C. players – It can be a section within the main article. Svartner (talk) 23:22, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Delete per WP:OR, NOSTATS, and do not merge or redirect. The original list needs an overhaul and much better prose, no need to have another list to manage. Govvy (talk) 09:01, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - no evidence of notability. If sources are found which show significant coverage please ping me. Giant Snowman 09:15, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment umm GiantSnowman I don't know if you want to rewrite that, as the article is completely sourced and full of citations! Govvy (talk) 10:18, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
umm Govvy please read what I wrote. I did not say the article was unsourced. I said there were no sources showing significant coverage. Giant Snowman 10:19, 6 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@GiantSnowman: Again this is not an issue of notability! You continue to post the exact same post on different AfDs, you do realise you need to sometimes tailer what you write. Govvy (talk) 10:33, 6 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No, it is 100% an issue of notability, that is the only reason why we are here... Giant Snowman 10:34, 6 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Can't believe how wrong you are, and you call yourself an admin. :/ Govvy (talk) 10:25, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - do not merge with List of Tottenham Hotspur F.C. players. That list is restricted to notable Spurs players. Maybe the definition of what consitututes a notable Spurs player needs a tiny bit of finessing but there's certainly no way someone like Jamie Slabber should be merged onto the list based on his eleven minutes of play in the Premier League -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:39, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete—No reason to merge. This is repetitive, poorly done, and fails WP:NOTSTATS. Anwegmann (talk) 20:04, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

List of military attachés and war correspondents in World War I

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What possible reason is there to join two distinct groups in a "list" that is not a list, when the two groups have their own separate lists? Clarityfiend (talk) 12:29, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Puzzling: I see now in the talk page that the decision was made in 2022 to split the list in two. However, is still retaining an article (of sorts) the only way to keep the edit history? Clarityfiend (talk) 12:34, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The attribution history must be preserved, one way or another. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 01:19, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The article cannot be deleted, since the historical attribution before the split must be preserved. But the article is not needed now that both lists are split. So I guess options are either pick a redirect target somehow, or turn this into a brief disambigation page. MarioGom (talk) 15:18, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Get rid of this page but in a way that enables us to preserve the attribution history. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 20:12, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Kevin McCallister (disambiguation)

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Delete. Lists only one primary topic (that isn't even properly listed as the PT) and several similar-sounding names. Not sufficient at all for a DAB page. GilaMonster536 (talk) 02:17, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: I've fixed the dab page format, and the entries are all names which a reader might easily confuse, and all seem to have appropriate hatnotes leading to this dab page. PamD 07:39, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
There is a lovely web of surname pages, some of which claim the others as variants: see McCallister, McCalister, McAlister, McAllister, Macalister, Macalester (disambiguation), and probably many more "Son of Alasdair" names. I'm not sure whether they all have all the appropriate linkages to other variants, to help the poor reader who's looking for someone they've heard of! PamD 10:57, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Rename Kevin McAllister (disambiguation). There are several McAllisters and one near-match, and only one McCallister (aside from the song). Clarityfiend (talk) 10:05, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
- Rename - I am open to a rename of the article to Kevin McAllister (disambiguation), but I also do not object to keeping the page at the current title. --Jax 0677 (talk) 13:21, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Why? There are only two entries of that name, triggering WP:TWODABS. A hatnote in Kevin McCallister could include a link to the McAllister page. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:13, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
- " I am open to a rename of the article". --Jax 0677 (talk)
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List of World War II war correspondents (1942–43)

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Arbitrary criterion (" war correspondents who reported from North Africa or Italy in 1942-43") fails WP:NLIST. Clarityfiend (talk) 11:27, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

oppose deletion, does not fail WP:NLIST because of established notability Vofa (talk) 12:07, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Merge to List of war correspondents#21st century. It's rather weird for this to apparently be limited to those in North Africa or Italy since the title does not reflect that. Anyway, I see no reason to have a list that only has thoses place or these two years, but if there are any blue links not already in the main list, they may be added there. It's broadly a good list topic but needs some organization. Reywas92^Talk 23:58, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No objection to merger, but 21st century? Clarityfiend (talk) 12:41, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
- Oops, 20th century obviously! Reywas92^Talk 23:47, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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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. Star Mississippi 12:36, 10 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

List of current Indian state Ministers for Tourism

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Fails WP:GNG, there are dozens of ministers of several portfolios in the states of India. All these lists of ministers can't be maintained on Wikipedia. Only the Chief Ministers/Deputy Chief Ministers are notable enough for as such list. — Hemant Dabral (📞 • ✒) 05:33, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep. No valid reason for deletion has been provided. Whether or not we keep this list is decided by the sourcing situation, not the quantity of Indian state ministers. Cortador (talk) 13:57, 2 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Is notability not a "valid" reason? — Hemant Dabral (📞 • ✒) 05:06, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Wikipedia is not a directory of Indian bureaucrats. Stifle (talk) 08:57, 10 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Second ladies of India

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A niche term at best, a made-up term at worse to promote an Indian counterpart to the American second lady. None of the existing citations mentions the term "second lady" and are only used to support claims that certain persons are wives of the Indian vice president. A search on Google does not yield any evidence of established endonymic usage of the term second lady of India (which is not merely a substitute for vice president wife). Searching "Uprashtrapati Bhawan hostess" also does not yield any quality sources. The role of Second Lady of India (as hostess of the Uparashtrapati Bhavan may not even exist even in unofficial capacity. Or if they do, they don't use the term). Hariboneagle927 (talk) 04:34, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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KEEP - This is an ongoing global Wikipedia effort that encompasses the wives of global vice presidents (and other terms). Please see Category:Second ladies and gentlemen of the United States, Category:Spouses of vice presidents by country — Maile (talk) 15:21, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also note that Commons:Category:Spouses of the Vice President by country has images for these spouses. — Maile (talk) 00:34, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete – The comparison between the (Category:Second ladies and gentlemen of the United States) page or category is not appropriate. According to Wikipedia's guidelines, such a page seems justified, but it requires reliable sources for support. The sources available for this page do not meet the criteria outlined in WP:GNG, so the page does not fully comply with this guideline. For example, the wife of the U.S. Vice President receives significant news coverage and publicity in India[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15], whereas in India, the wife of the Vice President does not receive similar publicity or news coverage. If there is any coverage, it typically mentions them in connection with their husband. If you believe I am mistaken, please provide 4-5 sources that confirm news coverage specifically for the wife of India's Vice President.-SachinSwami (talk) 07:20, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Geez, I don't know and don't think I can !vote one way or the other until digging into the sourcing beyond what we are seeing here, but this is a tough call. On the one hand, the present sources don't seem to provide the focused, subject-oriented coverage we'd normally want to see to support GNG. On the other hand, I just have a hard time believing that we couldn't hit that threshold--not withstanding SachinSwami's observations, which I do consider valuable insight. It's just that we don't necessarily need 4-5 such sources containing detailed coverage. 2-3 and a smattering of other indirect references will probably get this past an initial AfD. It does remain to be demonstrated that this threshold can be met. But I'd be kind of shocked if it couldn't honestly, given the size of India's media market and the footprints of its national political leaders? SnowRise ^{let's rap} 08:48, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Candidates of the 2024 United Kingdom general election by constituency

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This is a lengthy list of candidates per constituency in last year's UK general election. It is all sourced to a single website. It violates WP:NOTDIRECTORY: it is not an encyclopaedia article and is better suited to Wikidata. We have all this information elsewhere (in the individual constituency articles) if someone wants to find out who stood in a particular constituency. What is the value of having it all in big Wikipedia tables repeated here? Bondegezou (talk) 20:38, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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I've found it helpful on numerous occasions in my work, it saves me so much time rather than having to go into individual constituencies to find out. It exists for countless other countries and deleting it would only hinder. I would agree that if it were being created now then it would be problematic but it would ADD burdens, admittedly for only a few people but us nevertheless, rather than making anything more simple or easier to use. Please keep this genuinely very helpful article. Kepleo123 (talk) 21:02, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep this is a valid navigational article, even if it might need additional sources beyond the single one. A merge is not a good option because the other article is too long already. SportingFlyer T·C 16:46, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

How is it a valid navigational article? Nearly all losing candidates don't have articles to which to navigate, so the main navigation is just to the winner, but we already have List of MPs elected in the 2024 United Kingdom general election that covers that. How many different ways do we need the same information? Bondegezou (talk) 10:02, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. What is it's value? Its value is in its use. I use the page regularly to access information. I find it an invaluable resource. We would not want to delete something if there is data showing that the page is well used. No data is being provided to justify its deletion. Graemp (talk) 11:55, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Just because nearly all of them don't doesn't mean there's anything at all invalid about this particular article. SportingFlyer T·C 16:54, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete WP:NOTDATABASE, WP:NOTDIRECTORY and seeing as there is one single source for all this information it may fall in a grey area copyright-wise per WP:ONESOURCE. Orange sticker (talk) 09:51, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This isn't a database as it's properly contextualised and it's not a resource for conducting business. SportingFlyer T·C 16:55, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Furthermore there are other sources available and it's a list of factual information, so there's no copyright issue. SportingFlyer T·C 16:55, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Per WP:NOTDATABASE. 🦅White-tailed eagle^{Talk to the eagle}Stalking eagle 23:13, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment: WP:NOTDATABASE has been mentioned twice but none of the points there are relevant to this AfD. The more relevant link would seem to be WP:NOTDIRECTORY. Stockhausenfan (talk) 23:58, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It's not a directory, either - it's a list. SportingFlyer T·C 02:38, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep As it's useful and encylopeidc. AlessandroTiandelli333 (talk) 15:02, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. I think this is very useful and if something like this is precluded there should be change in policy. I don't see how it is substantially different from 1982 United States House of Representatives election. I don't know enough about WP:DIRECTORY to have an educated vote here. --Mpen320 (talk) 23:35, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment the sole source of this table has a copyright notice saying it is owned by the Democracy Club Community Interest Company, who sell the data they compile commercially. [16] Should this be brought to WP:CPN? Orange sticker (talk) 08:26, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
- The website's design and prose is copyrighted. A publicly available list of names that they took from government sources is not a creative work that can be copyrighted, even if they sell compilations that include it. Reywas92^Talk 14:04, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete: There's no notability in simply standing for election. As this event has passed, we only need a list of the winners of the election. We aren't an election wiki, listing each and every person that ever ran for an election at any point in time, anywhere on the planet. Oaktree b (talk) 19:19, 6 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Transwiki to another Wikimedia wiki like Wikidata. Wynwick55gl (talk) 08:49, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as a valuable list of information. This page was started after a discussion which involved the splitting of the Candidates in the 2024 United Kingdom general election page. Moondragon21 (talk) 19:34, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

List of general secretaries of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

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Fails WP:GNG, I propose it to be deleted and merged with All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. — Hemant Dabral (📞 • ✒) 01:32, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians, Lists of people, and Tamil Nadu. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 05:14, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: Searches have turned up sufficient in-depth coverage from independent, reliable sources to support that the General Secretary of the AIADMK meets the WP:GNG notability guideline. Reliable sources are cited to verify this. Since 1977, individuals holding this position have played significant roles in both Indian national and state-level politics. They have influenced key political alliances — supporting the Janata Party government in 1979, the Congress government under Narasimha Rao in 1991, and the BJP-led government in 1998. AIADMK, under its General Secretary, has allied with national parties multiple times, impacting national outcomes. Notably, from 2014 to 2016, the General Secretary led AIADMK as the third largest party in Parliament with over 50 MPs across both houses. Kalpana Sundar ^Talk 07:06, May 23, 2025 (UTC)

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