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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Matthew Thompson ^{talk to me bro!} 01:50, 17 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Belg der Belgen[edit]

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Non-notable, possibly copyvio. cf. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/200 Greatest Israelis. List articles that simply reproduce lists published elsewhere are non-notable. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:20, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete fails WP:GNG. Stuartyeates (talk) 05:16, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment. As was explained at length at the indicated AfD, there is obviously no copyvio. None at all. If there were, we would have to delete (and no press could reflect) the results of Academy Award polls, and Gallup Polls, and the like. The relevant Supreme Court case (Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service, 111 S. Ct. 1282 (1991)) was already set forth at the above-indicated AfD. See also (with the same conclusion) the failed AfDs at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/100 greatest Romanians and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/100 Greatest Britons; and note that copyvio wasn't even claimed in the failed Afd at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Greatest American.

I note, as well, that this appears to be part of a series of two dozen AfDs by the same nom, of most of the national poll results reflected here.--Epeefleche (talk) 05:59, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete But I'm biased in that I don't think any of these "greatest" lists are notable. --Harizotoh9 (talk) 12:13, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Belgium-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:07, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:07, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment. Nominator is mistaken in this generic non-notability claim about articles whose topic is a list published elsewhere. If simply reproducing that list, it would indeed quite likely be a copyvio, and thereby a reason for speedy deletion. But that has no bearing on the issue of notability. There, the criterion is whether the topic of the article has received significant coverage in independent reliable sources.  --Lambiam 08:14, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. First, I note that at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/100 Welsh Heroes, the closer of the AfD to which the nom points objected to nom's use of his close as precedent. He wrote: "No blanket declaration about the inherent notability of such lists was made, or even implied, in my closing statement [1].... And I don't know how much clearer I could have been that copyright issues were not considered as a factor in that close."

Second, it is clear as discussed above that there is not any copyvio. In addition, nom's last sentence is simply inapplicable. As to notability, I note (as wp:otherstuffexists permits) that we have thousands of lists of people from country x (or city y, or college z), which weren't even the results of polls -- just collections that random editors chose -- and this certainly has greater indicia of notability than such lists.

Finally, I note that at the 2-dozen-odd AfDs that nom made of the same ilk most commentators are expressing keen disagreement with nom's parallel nominations. The AfDs, which are running concurrently with this one, can be found at most of the national poll results reflected here.--Epeefleche (talk) 07:29, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Clearly not a copyvio , as has been shown above, and equally clearly justified by notability. The supposed policy against such lists is entirely the invention of the nom. DGG ( talk ) 19:00, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - As discussed above, this is (a) not copyvio, and (b) notable. Also (c) the vast AfD spam of the nominator, both with these and with coats-of-arms/flag pages, deserves a application of soggy seafood. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 00:25, 13 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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