Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lists of governors

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The result was keep. Pretty clear consensus to keep here. (non-admin closure) Smartyllama (talk) 16:22, 24 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Lists of governors

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No apparent reason for having a list of lists that merely duplicates entries that may be found in or better covered by Category:Lists of governors, and what's listed appear to be of unclear criteria and indiscriminate and therefore contravenes WP:NOT. As a list of such lists is not sourced or discussed in sources, nor is there a clear reason for its existence, it fails WP:LISTN, WP:LISTCRITERIA, and WP:LISTVERIFY. Hzh (talk) 22:16, 17 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. MarginalCost (talk) 23:49, 17 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. MarginalCost (talk) 23:49, 17 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep and develop, this is a completely obvious search term and parent for organizing our lists of governors, particularly since List of governors even redirects here. Seems like a pretty standard set index to me, in aid of reader navigation and content organization. See WP:NOTDUP ("It is neither improper nor uncommon to simultaneously have a category, a list, and a navigation template which all cover the same topic. These systems of organizing information are considered to be complementary, not inappropriately duplicative."), WP:LISTPURP ("If users have some general idea of what they are looking for but do not know the specific terminology, they could browse the lists of basic topics and more comprehensive lists of topics..."), and WP:NOTDIR ("...Wikipedia functions as an index or directory of its own content..."). On the nominator's complaints, first, if it "duplicates" a category, then how is it unclear what should be in this list? It could obviously be expanded to match the contents of the category, and organized and annotated in a way that the category cannot, yet the nominator inappropriately focuses on the list's current state rather than its potential. Second, it's our list of what articles we have on this topic, so it's completely irrelevant if not nonsensical to complain that our list is not "discussed in sources". Re: LISTN, to the extent that guideline is helpful here, see governor; clearly the position or title that these are lists of is notable. postdlf (talk) 17:44, 18 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep useful search term, and there are more countries than the US and Nigeria that have governors. (i.e. List of current state governors in Mexico) power~enwiki (π, ν) 18:45, 18 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. I am expanding it now; the extra organization and information (that weren't there before) are sufficient to justify its existence. Clarityfiend (talk) 23:13, 19 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Serves the encyclopedic purpose, Wikipedia:list of lists. wumbolo ^^^ 14:53, 20 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The encyclopedic purpose here is as a finding aid to the more specific lists. Bearcat (talk) 18:05, 20 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This seems extremely useful to me, and in line with the overarching goals of Wikipedia. I don't see any reason why this should be deleted. Lonehexagon (talk) 05:23, 21 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Snow keep. Aid to navigation. Pburka (talk) 23:46, 23 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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