Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of witches executed

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 speedy delete as a copyright violation of [1]. ♠PMC♠ 19:47, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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I initially marked this for speedy deletion because it had no content save external links. It has since become an enormous unformatted list of non-notable people. I am concerned that the sources given in the article are POV and that this list may be pasted in from somewhere. In any case, I don't think this is an appropriate list given that most of the subjects are not notable and that Wikipedia is not a memorial. Deranged bulbasaur 12:04, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nom. I'm sure that it's pasted: the article is expanded by 75,000 and 65,000 bytes respectively in just a few minutes; I seriously doubt that anyone could type that fast :-) Nyttend 13:12, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong delete - Wow. First of all, this list is a formatting disaster. It is nothing more than one name listed after another the entire way down the page. No paragraphs, headings, bullets, or anything else. Seriously, how does the creator expect anybody to read this? Second, a title of "List of witches executed" indicates that all of the people on this list were indeed witches, which I'm pretty sure they were not. Neither of those are criteria for deletion, though. What makes this article worthy of deletion (and, possibly, worthy of speedy deletion) is that it is a clear-cut indiscriminate list of non-notable people whose only claim to fame is being executed for witchcraft. Well, Wikipedia is not a memorial, not an indiscriminate collection of information, and not a collection of loosely associated topics. On top of that, this entire list has been selectively copied and pasted from http://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/burning.htm. (The creator separated the "witches" on the list at the URL by country of origin.) This article must now be burned at the stake. Burn, baby, burn! --Hnsampat 13:22, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• speedy delete as copyvio. tagged as such. --Whsitchy 14:36, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Speedy delete It violates WP:LISTCRUFT and WP:MEMORIAL. hmwithtalk 16:10, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• delete as per nom. Also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_Witches which is a better formatted version but should also be considered for deletions for many of the same reasons. Grievous Angel 16:05, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom; looks like a copy and paste job. Dust bunny 18:36, 28 May 2007 (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 a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.