Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of mass murders

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The result was delete. The key argument is the overbroadness of the subject but I'd be happy to provide the content if someone wanted to work on it to find a way to makenthe content manageable Spartaz ^Humbug! 06:30, 27 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

List of mass murders

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The list's definition is so broad as to include and overlap the existing articles of List of terrorist incidents and List of mass shootings in the United States to name a couple. The list is woefully incomplete and includes only a select few acts from 2019 specifically. Moreover, the essence of Mass murder itself is so broad that such a list will never be in a complete or useful form for readers to process. AlexEng^(TALK) 20:14, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. AlexEng^(TALK) 20:14, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Terrorism-related deletion discussions. AlexEng^(TALK) 20:14, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. AlexEng^(TALK) 20:14, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Clearly incomplete and I'm sure these events are already mentioned in other lists. – zmbro _(talk) 20:24, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, not all mass murders are shootings nor acts of terrorism. If there are criteria questions, that should be worked out on the talk page first, and that has not even been attempted here. Note also we have Category:Mass murders to which this is a complement. postdlf (talk) 21:58, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- (edit conflict) I didn't intend to say that all mass murders are shootings and acts of terrorism. Those are just a couple of examples. AlexEng^(TALK) 23:03, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- (edit conflict) Does each category require a list of all of its members, sub-members, sub-sub-members, etc.? Category:Mass murders has thousands of pages in its category tree, many of which belong to more specific subcategories, e.g. Category:Genocides in Asia. Mass murder already exists, and complements its category, as noted on the category page: Category:Mass murders. I don't think we need List of mass murders to complement Category:Mass murders for the same reason we don't need List of crops to complement Category:Crops. This is a list that cannot approach becoming exhaustive, and even an attempt to make it close to exhaustive would result in a massive, unusable page supplanted by more useful specific pages. Please see Disadvantages of a list#6 from the MOS. Some topics are so broad that a list would be unmanageably long and effectively unmaintainable. AlexEng^(TALK) 23:03, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  - Converting this into a list of lists might then be a good idea. postdlf (talk) 13:38, 14 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, doesnt seem like a terribly useful page and anyway the current page isn’t really extensive enough to go to bat for. Horse Eye Jack (talk) 22:53, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
COMMENT There seem to be a large number of mass murders in the various subcategories of the mass murder category. Mass murders listed by year and country seem to be more reasonable. Note that Category:Mass murders is in Category:Mass murder which has far more things in it. Dream Focus 02:26, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 21:23, 19 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. I think making an article with such a broad subject is a bad idea. Theres just so many mass murders. Iamreallygoodatcheckers (talk) 12:01, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.