Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people named bill

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The result of the debate was delete. Joyous 02:35, Jan 30, 2005 (UTC)

List of people named bill

Not encyclopedic. TigerShark 01:49, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Delete, Not encyclopedic. K1Bond007 01:53, Jan 22, 2005 (UTC)
Keep Those named Bill must be known.
- Vote above is from anonymous page author. Struck-out. TigerShark 01:58, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Keep. This is useful to anyone researching the prevalence of the name Bill. 198.82.71.55 02:00, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Anonymous voting not allowed. Struck-out. TigerShark 02:09, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  - It's up to the administrator, at the end of the process, to decide upon the worthiness of votes from anonymous users. Please read Wikipedia deletion policy. Uncle G 02:35, 2005 Jan 22 (UTC)
    - Thankyou Commandant Uncle G, that is why I did a strikethrough. This page has already been reviewed by at least one Admin, but only you saw fit to raise Chapter 43a, Section 567, Sub-Section 761B. Ve must follow ze rules! TigerShark 11:20, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
      - When you've read Wikipedia deletion policy, please read Wikipedia:No personal attacks and Godwin's law as well. It's not your comment to strike through nor your decision to make. Uncle G 19:58, 2005 Jan 24 (UTC)
        You really need to get less hooked on strict interpretations of the rules. I did not delete anything, or make any changes that could not be clearly seen and reverted. What exactly is the problem with what I did? (except that it didn't comply 100% with your precious rules). This is not the first time that you have lectured me on "the rules" and I believe that your approach to me, especially your tone, is at least partly to blame for the tone of any replies from me. TigerShark 21:44, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Delete - As above. Plus any list that has "Bill Shakespear" on it has got to go. Rossrs 02:16, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
My immediate reaction, upon seeing this at Special:Newpages, was "You have to be joking!". Delete. Uncle G 02:35, 2005 Jan 22 (UTC)
Delete Silly. --LeeHunter 03:14, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Let this be an object lesson in the dangers of having way too much free time on your hands. 23skidoo 03:24, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Delete, it's crap. Neutrality^talk 04:17, Jan 22, 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Also, looks like the article creator was just caught tampering with votes here. --Calton 04:18, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Delete. It's impossible to list all people named Bill. And I don't see how this article could be useful to anyone, anyway. --Idont Havaname 05:40, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Non-encyclopedic. Now, if this were "List of people called Bill associated with Star Trek", I suppose it would be judged significant (though not by me). -- Hoary 07:11, 2005 Jan 22 (UTC)
Delete. Non-encyclopedic. And so inaccurate that it is not a useful start if anyone were to decide that such a list were encyclopedic, because it contains any number of people who are not referred to as Bill. Dpbsmith (talk) 18:34, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Delete, un-encyclopaedic. Megan1967 01:23, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Wikify and merge notable ones to Bill for disambiguation. We have precedence such as John. Kusunose 17:27, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Delete silly lists. Jayjg | (Talk) 01:20, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Delete -- Curps 04:20, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Delete. This list is impractical, likely a joke. GRider\^talk 17:54, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Delete The inclusion of "Bill Shakespeare" is just too much! Ganymead 05:06, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Delete on title alone... Smoddy | ειπετε 21:55, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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