Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of International Baccalaureate graduates

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The result of the debate was DELETE. Golbez 18:48, May 17, 2005 (UTC)

List of International Baccalaureate graduates

Useless list. Could grow forever. Never complete. r3m0t ^talk 22:18, May 9, 2005 (UTC)

Delete. Agreed. The only encyclopedic individuals are not encyclopedic for finishing the IB curriculum; thousands do so every year. Seems to be asking for individual vanity. ESkog 22:37, 9 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete unencyclopedic. CDC (talk) 02:09, 10 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, unmaintainable unencyclopaedic list. Megan1967 02:16, 10 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
keep, as long as it includes only ~~"notable"~~ articled individuals there should be no problem. Kappa 03:33, 10 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Managable list as long as it only lists notable alumni, per Kappa. User:Sjakkalle will never make the list however... pity. Sjakkalle 07:11, 10 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, unmaintainable. All notable alumni are already in other more specific lists; ~~we also don't have a List of people because that's similarly too broad.~~ Radiant_* 08:35, May 10, 2005 (UTC)
- What do you mean we don't have List of people? It looks like a pretty large article even... Sjakkalle 06:21, 11 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  - Whoa, I am surprised. We do have a list of people. I didn't know Wikipedia had an index other than Special:Allpages. Nevertheless I still fail to see the point of the list of graduates. R adiant _* 07:48, May 11, 2005 (UTC)
Delete, notable is POV. RickK 20:59, May 10, 2005 (UTC)
- Comment: very well put. Kappa 16:55, 11 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  - Now that the wording has been changed to "famous", is it still POV? PeregrineAY 09:06, 2005 May 12 (UTC)
    - The only good guide to "famous" we have is "does the person have a Wikipedia article?". In that case, the list duplicates something that could better be managed as a category. --Carnildo 17:44, 12 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Almost as broad as List of college graduates. --Carnildo 21:22, 10 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Even my flatmate would make the list. Trying to limit it to "notable" alumni is asking for POV trouble. --TenOfAllTrades (talk/contrib) 00:56, 11 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, this article was based on List of Harvard University graduates, until that got changed into a even broader topic, List of Harvard University people As creator of the list, I would like to see it kept because IB graduates deserve recognition. Perhaps someone could go change notable to famous, like it says in List of Harvard University people. PeregrineAY 06:48, 2005 May 11 (UTC)
Delete. If this sort of thing is desirable, make it a category and use it on bio articles of the appropriate notables. Quale 06:00, 12 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, the certificate that you get at the end of highschool is really of very little interest to anybody--nixie 06:04, 12 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Something of "interest" is really POV, isn't it? At any rate, I suggest you should learn more about the International Baccalaureate program.PeregrineAY 09:06, 2005 May 12 (UTC)
Keep, as a list of notable alumni, and the context implies it without a change to the title: we have plenty of alumni lists on their own or within institutional articles we manage to take care of. Samaritan 06:08, 12 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, I don't see why this should be deleted - it's a list of notable alumni just like any other one, with the exception that a lot more people will be interested in it than in a similar list for one single school only. There's a lot of people around who are proud of their IB background (yours truly included) and will be interested in finding out about famous people who have gone through the same programme. ulayiti 07:55, 16 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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