Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of ambassadors of Sweden

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.  Sandstein  11:24, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

List of ambassadors of Sweden

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Unencyclopedic, circular reference, list of lists, and a misleading title. I would expect, per the article title, an article on ambassadors of Sweden, but it seems intended as a dab page of sorts. It also does not follow the precedent of the "Lists of ambassadors" pages, which list all current ambassadors from the stated country and are not used as dab pages. MSJapan (talk) 18:55, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

• Comment Same editor has been doing alot of these similar lists, such as List of ambassadors of Brazil and List of ambassadors of Spain. There are similar, bad lists from other editors (List of ambassadors of Jordan). I'm not sure what to make of these. Bgwhite (talk) 22:21, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sweden-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 23:31, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 23:31, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bilateral relations-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 16:04, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

• • Reply - I've prodded a few of them for now - if the prods are removed, I'll see if I can wrap them into this deletion discussion. MSJapan (talk) 23:41, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
• Delete we don't create lists to link to other lists. LibStar (talk) 07:20, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

See the list of lists of lists. Opera hat (talk) 14:44, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

• Keep, likely search term. Siuenti (talk) 07:48, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

not a reason in itself for keeping. LibStar (talk) 09:47, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Why not? Please explain why someone using this search term should not get what they are looking for. Siuenti (talk) 10:46, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Natg 19 (talk) 01:18, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

• Rename to Lists of ambassadors of Sweden. As the nominator says, the current article title would lead one to expect a list of (current) Swedish ambassadors to other countries, which this is not. The ideal article would be one along the lines of List of heads of missions of the United Kingdom or Ambassadors of the United States, which give a list of current ambassadors, as well as links to lists of previous ambassadors to each country. Until such an article exists for Sweden, "Lists of..." is a more accurate title. Collating the current information is not useless, so deletion is not appropriate. Opera hat (talk) 19:24, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, clpo13_(talk) 09:23, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

• Delete - While it may be a likely search term, as Opera hat points out, the title is misleading, therefore invalid. In addition, the nom's rationale is spot on. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 14:47, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
• Delete. The computer scientist in me is excited by adding another level of indirection (to any problem), but this isn't a CS class, it's an encyclopedia, and it doesn't work here. Strong objection to the proposed Lists of ambassadors of Sweden title; it may be accurate, but it looks too much like List of ambassadors of Sweden, and is bound to just cause confusion. -- RoySmith (talk) 19:22, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
• Delete Fails selection criteria of WP:Stand alone lists, lacking stated criteria and lacking the support of reliable sources for those criteria. I agree with Onel5969 that while it may be a likely search term, the title is misleading. Because of its formatting it is only marginally useful as a navigation aid. In a reduced form it might better be part of a general article on Sweden's foreign relations. Right now the only function seems to be to add links to prevent other articles from being orphaned. --Bejnar (talk) 07:31, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

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