Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of famous people who died young

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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Keep. Tito xd^(?!?) 03:45, 18 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

List of famous people who died young

I think this is a pointless list. JW1805 17:37, 11 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Keep. It has a column describing what these people are known for, which is quite interesting. --Vsion 18:01, 11 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I don't. Keep. It's more useful than List of Songs which have Telephone Numbers In The Title or List Of People With Pet Elephants. The Land 19:00, 11 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Vivian Darkbloom 18:48, 11 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Would you care to give a reason why? the wub "?!" 22:54, 11 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
very strong keep Interesting, maintainable, and already populated. — brighterorange (talk) 18:54, 11 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Very interesting article. Tintin 18:59, 11 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. It's so interesting that it's been on my watchlist for a while just for reference purposes.ErikNY 19:06, 11 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Interesting and useful article. Davewild 19:10, 11 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Strongest Possible Keep Hipocrite - «Talk» 19:17, 11 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. "I think this is a pointless list" isn't a very good reason for deletion.--Kewp (t) 19:22, 11 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Keep, not a big fan of standalone lists... but this seems to have encyclopedic value.--Isotope23 20:10, 11 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Strong keep. Absolutely encyclopedic. PacknCanes 22:25, 11 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Useful list --JAranda | yeah 22:27, 11 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Interesting and useful list. the wub "?!" 22:54, 11 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. I'm one of the resident listcruft deletionists, but this is what an interesting, well-expanded list, with links, should be. MCB 23:13, 11 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. It's interesting, useful, and very well-done. --Idont Havaname 01:52, 12 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
keep, but I'm surprised that 40 is the cut off date (30 was what I had in mind.) Sabine's Sunbird 02:52, 12 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: lowering it to 30 would make it much more manageable, like Dead or Alive does. -- Kjkolb 04:12, 12 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: I still think it's pointless. What about a List of famous people who died old? --JW1805 17:06, 12 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  - Yes, but the consensus had already been to keep the article. At least it's not as bad as all those song lists, though. Songs with parentheses in the title? Ugh. Also, stop giving them ideas for new lists. ;-) -- Kjkolb 09:33, 13 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  - This is somewhat covered by centenarian and supercentenarian. --Idont Havaname 17:35, 13 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
keep best stand-alone list I've run across on wikipedia. Youngamerican 17:44, 12 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Pointless and unmanagable. For much of human history, most people died before 30. Martg76 22:01, 12 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Were they all famous ? :-) Tintin 22:02, 12 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Enough of them to make this page extremely long. Martg76 22:17, 14 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Maximum keep I use it as a reference. And, of course, I contribute to it regularly. Giftlite 01:19, 18 October 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.