Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Japanese people

List of Japanese people

This page intends to list all notable Japanese people. To me this seems completely inpractical for a singe article. There must be a huge number of notable Japanese people past and present who are not included on the list - even if only the section of ficitonal Japanese people was truely complete it would still proably make it the longest article on Wikipedia. The page is also redundant as many of the listings are duplicated in the various pages from the catagory Lists of Japanese people. This is a catagory not an article. Guest9999 16:41, 23 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete should be a category. I also wonder what the is the criteria for other notable people. And fictional people should not be included. Seems like a mess of an endless list.Ridernyc 16:45, 23 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I agree, the purpose of a category is to provide groupings for articles, and this is a perfect application. And fictitious people should be removed; that's what the List of fictitious people article is for. -Amatulic 18:14, 23 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Is already covered by Category:Japanese people, Category:People of Japanese descent, Category:Japanese people by ethnic or national origin and there are multiple 'specialized' lists which can be found at the Category:Lists of Japanese people. SkierRMH 22:55, 23 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete In this case, I agree with Guest9999's housecleaning effort. It's a category already, and the category is a better way to navigate than this. Mandsford 00:39, 24 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I think we have a category for this. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 01:32, 24 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
KEEP This article-list is being deleted for the same incorrect reasons as the since overturned List of German Americans was deleted. This list is for a notable ethnic group as evidenced by its having an article and having a category. There is no valid WP reason why this list should be deleted. There is nothing in WP that says lists cannot also exist when categories exist. The list readily provides information for the reader that categories only provide by lots of work, reading one article after another, Lists provide names, dates of birth/death, and occupation/reason for notability--in other words why one might want to then read an article on a person. The list serves as an index to the category articles. Is the list perfect? No, but the job of WP editors is to improve articles (including lists) on notable subject matter, not delete them.