Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people who have turned on the Oxford Street Christmas lights

List of people who have turned on the Oxford Street Christmas lights

List of people who have turned on the Oxford Street Christmas lights (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log) • Afd statistics

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Violates WP:NOT (Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information); this list appears arbitrary -- what makes the Oxford Street Christmas lights any different or any more notable than anyone else's Christmas lights? mhking (talk) 00:20, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

• These are the Christmas lights on the busiest shopping street in Europe. The switching on of the lights has also become something of a tradition, it is attended by thousands of people and receives considerable media coverage, as is already evidenced to some extent by the citations in the article. A lot more could be found. The list is getting too long to include in the main article and is more appropraite for a separate 'list' break out article. Rangoon11 (talk) 00:27, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. -- Jclemens-public (talk) 01:07, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
• Keep/Merge - Well layed out and cited list that is a good extension of the Oxford Street article. I think it could be merged into the parent article without making it too big but as it stands I think it's fine. - Pmedema (talk) 04:44, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
• Delete If any "turning on the lights" ceremony is notable then Oxford Street would be near the top of the list. However, we need to observe some kind of notability for this list. Would even one of these notable people think the ceremony was worth even one line in their autobiography? I very much doubt it. The people are individually notable, the ceremony should be (and is) mentioned in the Oxford Street article. But the list isn't notable. Dingo1729 (talk) 05:48, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
• Comment Here is a reference to the turning on of the lights in a book about the Spice Girls which you may find illuminating: [1]Rangoon11 (talk) 11:28, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
• Keep I don't really see any problem with this list. Yes, it's trivial and kind of a waste of time. However some people might be interested in the information. The light ceremony has a section in Oxford Street and some readers will have an interest in the list -- which is too large to merge there. It is also well-sourced and a matter of public record so no harm is done to individuals. Kitfoxxe (talk) 13:45, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
• Comment. The list contains an entry which is either cryptic, mispunctuated, or just plain wrong: "2006 — All Saints (Peter André & Katie Price aka Jordan, G4, Andy Abraham)". The use of parentheses in this context implies that Andre, Price/Jordan, G4, and Abraham are all members of All Saints, when in fact none of them are. This is cited to [2] which mentions only the involvement of All Saints. This needs to be fixed as soon as possible. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 16:00, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
  • Now corrected.Rangoon11 (talk) 16:08, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
• Weak keep. I personally think we have better things to do, but evidently the BBC, the Telegraph, the Daily Mail and whoever else dedicates entire articles to this think otherwise, and it's substantial coverage in reliable sources that count. If anyone ever creates an article about Oxford Street Christmas lights, it would make sense to merge this information into that. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 20:08, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
• Delete as a list of indiscriminate information. I agree with Dingo1729.Edison (talk) 20:14, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
• Delete Interesting but hardly worthy of an Encyclopedia entry. 41.133.47.252 (talk) 12:21, 29 November 2010 (UTC)