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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:25, 27 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

List of Middle-earth characters[edit]

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While a list can do things that a category can't, this list doesn't. Completely redundant with Category:Middle-earth characters. DES ^(talk) 02:09, 20 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Strong Keep It provides a single alphabetical list, which is a lot more useful if you just know a character's name and want to find who he or she is. Using categories, you will probably have to search a number of sub-categories to find the one you're looking for, especially if you don't know any details of the character (which species, what book they were in, where they live, etc) - look at all the sub-categories of Category:Middle-earth Men, for example. Or without knowing anything about who he/she/it is, try and find Muzgash using Category:Middle-earth characters. -- Boing! said Zebedee 11:43, 20 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. WP:CLN, WP:ATD. It's clear that the quality of the list can be improved. — Rankiri (talk) 13:02, 20 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Strong keep per above reasoning. De728631 (talk) 15:05, 20 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:15, 21 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:15, 21 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep One centralized repository where these articles can be found can only be of the utmost benefit to this project. North North-West (talk) 00:10, 23 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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