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The result was redirect to Chail_Military_School#Notable_alumni. Anyone specifically notable can be merged there.. Black Kite 23:10, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Alumini of Chail Military School (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View log)

List of non-notable people. Such lists should only contain blue links, this has no links at all. Little Red Riding Hoodtalk 20:12, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 20:20, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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• Merge notable people to Chail Military School#Notable alumni and redirect. This nomination would have benefited from rather more research. It is not a list of non-notable people. Because of the differences in name formation each name needs researching with care. For example, the apparently nn Capt G S Salariya PVC is, in fact, the highly notable Gurbachan Singh Salaria. By their function, all MPs and Governors in the list are notable, for example. TerriersFan (talk) 22:09, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge according to our usual practice. Probably about half of these would clearly merit articles--At least the Lieut. Generals. DGG (talk) 23:44, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• For the record, I don't disagree that people on the list may be notable, but my disagreement is the creation of a list of people with no articles. What's to stop me from creating List of people who lived in X, and make up a bunch of names? When does the validation of the list occur? It's possible that none of these people even exists! This is a direct violation of WP:V. Little Red Riding Hoodtalk 04:17, 28 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete:Merge the notable names into the main article but this article in itself does not deserve to be. Wikipedia is not facebook. --Deepak D'Souza 05:17, 28 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep: Too long to merge - this is appropriate as a spin-out article. Sourcing could be improved, but on the face of it, given the descriptions presented, the people appear to be sufficiently distinguished to include on a list of this kind. Jheald (talk) 09:24, 28 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep: same reason as mentioned by Jheald. Most of people listed here are recipients of PVSM, AVSM, PVC, MVC etc. military awards. Check Template:Indian honours and decorations for importance of these awards, though those articles may not contain the full list recipients.--GDibyendu (talk) 06:13, 29 November 2008 (UTC) Strong Delete: the list is a copy from the reference that it uses:[1]. This article can be avoided by adding the link to the school article, if not already there.--GDibyendu (talk) 04:49, 30 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. —Nick-D (talk) 09:47, 28 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am looking with dismay at the possibility that this article could possibly be kept. Let me give you a scenario: I put up an article, "Alumni of [the school I graduated from]" and make a huge list of people with no Wikipedia articles, and include my name on the list. Nobody will be able to compare the list with my User ID here on Wikipedia, so who's to say that my name is really on the list? But now, I can go around telling people, "Look, my name is on Wikipedia". If there is no requirement that a list have blue linked articles, then how do we ever possibly know that anybody on a list ever actually exists, let alone is notable, unless somebody takes the time to actually look up every single name on the list? Has anybody done this with this list? Do we know that all of the names, or even a majority of the names, are real people, and that they're notable enough to be here? Little Red Riding Hoodtalk 23:36, 29 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Purge and Merge per DGG. If they are notable, fix the names; if not, delete. --Orange Mike | Talk 15:22, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, as Wikipedia is not Facebook. Put any notable people into the school's article, sure, but no need to keep this around. Stifle (talk) 16:50, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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