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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. Consensus is this content is not suitable for an encyclopedia article. Star Mississippi 02:03, 14 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

List of people on the postage stamps of Mauritius[edit]

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After 13 years, we have "2" of the many people who were shown on stamps of Mauritius (one with a (??) after his name, very encyclopedic), no source (one external link), and no indication that this is in any way notable. Keeping around such crappy articles serves no purpose at all, and redirecting it is no good either as there are no other articles with info on this subject. Fram (talk) 15:04, 6 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Lists of people and Mauritius. Fram (talk) 15:04, 6 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Good evening! Feel free to delete the article. I digressed a little when writing an article on Pierre Poivre. Cheers from Russia, --CopperKettle 15:15, 6 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Sadly I agree, delete. Mauritius is important in the history of postage and stamps, to the extent that it has its own postal museum.[1] It has a number of postal "firsts", e.g. first British colony to order stamps. But its postal history is already well-covered at Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Mauritius. If anyone ever wishes to re-create a list of people on Mauritian postal stamps I'd have no objection, but there's no point in keeping the existing "list", and at the moment I'd consider it a better use of time to improve the main article. Elemimele (talk) 16:19, 6 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete There is not good sourcing to justify this article.John Pack Lambert (talk) 17:32, 6 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Information and navigational list. Completes a set. Category:Lists of people on postage stamps Can merge shorter list together perhaps, all small island nations. Dream Focus 10:18, 9 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    • Except that it doesn't provide information, nor navigation. It doesn't "complete" any set, it is part of a category with presumably some useful or acceptable articles, many very poor ones (unsourced or WP:OR, incomplete, ...), and many missing ones. And there is no logical connection between the people on stamps of Mauritius and, say, Tonga, Saint Helens, or the Galapagos, so a merge makes no sense either. Merging tragically bad information doesn't magically turn it into better information. Apart from that, very good arguments! Fram (talk) 10:25, 9 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Lacks sources establishing that WP:NLIST is met. MrsSnoozyTurtle 10:05, 10 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep My stamp database documents at least 38 people on Mauritian stamps [2], so there is material to be added. But if the subject is intrinsically non-notable and will always be deleted, no purpose in adding them now - on that point, I posted to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Philately. Stan (talk) 14:57, 11 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    • You haven't given an actual reason to keep this though. Yes, it can be expanded (even way further than what is listed on your personal site, which for some reason is used in some articles here), that still doesn't show any notability for the list topic for Mauritius. Fram (talk) 15:31, 11 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
      This is a known common question from readers, both here and in real life - "wasn't X on a postage stamp?" "no, they are still alive, you have to be dead", "that's just the US", "oh then what country?" and the bio of X might or might not mention the stamp appearance. That's why the list goes back to the earliest days of Wikipedia, we saw people coming here for that information. There are no lack of present-day wikirules that can be used to justify deletion here, but we need to apply them to the entire category uniformly. Stan (talk) 16:59, 11 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
      Hello Stan. Please refer to WP:NOTCATALOG and WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. Regards, MrsSnoozyTurtle 22:39, 12 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
      Plus, the viewing figures of these pages make it very clear that no, people don't come here for that information. Perhaps they did 15 years ago, but I doubt it. This list had one visitor every three days or so, and as we saw with Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people on the postage stamps of Portuguese colonies, such a list can remain empty for 13 years and no one will bat an eye, no one will try to improve it, no one cares. Fram (talk) 07:18, 13 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
      Oof, my wife says the same thing about my hobbies! :-) Stan (talk) 17:55, 13 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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