Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List Of Criminals

List Of Criminals

Was tagged for speedy deletion with the following rationale: "The people in this list can be encompassed by those lists in Category:Lists of criminals, so this is unneeded". I agree, but this fits no WP:CSD. The deletion was contested by the author, see the hangon tag in the history, so WP:PROD is also out. Sandstein 05:11, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. List badly fails NPOV guidelines, as "criminal" can mean different things. If it means anyone convicted of a crime, why are Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Joan of Arc, Charles I of England, Anne Boleyn, Mary Queen of Scots, Robert Downey Jr., Winona Ryder, etc. not on this list? Also, as is, falsely associates one living person with a criminal record with a list of known murderers, mass-murderers, and inciters to mass murder, and could be considered a violation of WP:BLP. --Charlene 06:20, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per User:Charlene.fic, the term is way too general. -- lucasbfr ^talk 09:21, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above. Also, that's a reeeeally short list of criminals. Virtual Cowboy 11:49, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - indiscriminate unmaintainable list. Otto4711 12:32, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This article is stupid for a few reasons. First of all, it only has 6 criminals listed. Ok I could probably spend 5 minutes and make the list 300 long (which is still to small for a list of crimals). Secondly, Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information --sumnjim ^{talk with me·changes} 12:44, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as a shining example of an indiscriminate list. What is the criteria for inclusion if there are only 6 people? I don't presume to know everything, but I damn sure know that there have been more than 6 criminals during the span of human existence. --Cyrus Andiron 12:52, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Category If this article could be made acceptable for Wikipedia, it would have to be so massive that it couldn't fit within a browser. Isn't there a whole category for this purpose? Life, Liberty, Property 13:54, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]