Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Execution of Witches

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The result was Speedily deleted per WP:CSD something or other; deletion requested by page creator. - Smerdis of Tlön 14:08, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Execution of Witches

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For background on this issue see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of witches executed. This is essentially the same sort of list as the previous one on Afd, just better formatted. I'm sympathetic to the author's argument that this is not a copyvio, given that it's a list based on objective criteria for inclusion, and thus not a creative work. Nevertheless, I think it should be deleted for all the reasons given in the previous nom. (namely that the people listed here are mostly not notable subjects and that Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information). It also cannot be proved that any of these people were actually witches as the article title implies. Furthermore, some of these deaths seem not to be executions of witches (there are some peculiar inclusions like murders and juvenile suicides). Deranged bulbasaur 12:59, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

I'd like to note that this was originally a PROD, but the template was removed by the author without comment. Deranged bulbasaur 13:04, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

• Delete as broad-ranging, patchy list which could never be completed, and being in same vein as previously-deleted other list. tomasz. 13:03, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
• Delete as requires complete rewrite. PROD was deleted accidentally. Canadiandude_007 15:05, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

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