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The result was no consensus. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 15:06, 24 November 2017 (UTC) reply

List of military veterans in British politics

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Strikes me as hard to maintain and not that informative for the reader. Does someone like Lord Carrington really belong in the same list as veterans of the Iraq War, for example? Ivar the Boneful ( talk) 16:12, 2 November 2017 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. North America ¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:14, 2 November 2017 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. North America ¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:14, 2 November 2017 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. North America ¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:14, 2 November 2017 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal ( talk) 20:02, 2 November 2017 (UTC) reply

• Comment In American politics, there's enough coverage of "veterans running for office" that a page like this would be notable. I don't know if British politics has similar coverage. I feel that a category would be easier to maintain in this case, but AfD isn't a good place for List v. Category debates. power~enwiki ( π, ν) 20:13, 8 November 2017 (UTC) reply

Keep: no policy reason to delete. Shhhnotsoloud ( talk) 18:10, 13 November 2017 (UTC) reply

• Comment. "Does someone like Lord Carrington really belong in the same list as veterans of the Iraq War, for example?" I'm a bit puzzled by this question. What do you mean? They're all military/combat veterans. Is it the mixing of wars you don't like or do you think one is more worthy than the other? -- Necrothesp ( talk) 15:48, 15 November 2017 (UTC) reply

• Keep It is neither hard to maintain nor uninformative. I can't see any other reason put forward for deletion. -- Pontificalibus ( talk) 12:10, 16 November 2017 (UTC) reply
• Keep It's a useful list with defined criteria which will never become unduly long or hard to maintain. Can't see how it violates policy. Neiltonks ( talk) 13:01, 16 November 2017 (UTC) reply
• leaning delete The only way this is being kept manageable is by limiting it to current politicians, which then turns it into a maintenance project. In other words, it's being kept from being indiscriminate by drawing an arbitrary line. A more general article discussing the relationship of military service to British politics would actually be useful. Mangoe ( talk) 18:41, 16 November 2017 (UTC) reply
• Delete. Arbitrary connection. Szzuk ( talk) 21:45, 17 November 2017 (UTC) reply
• Delete as an unnecessary cross-categorisation, failing WP:NOT. K.e.coffman ( talk) 21:23, 19 November 2017 (UTC) reply
• Delete, arbitrary listing criterium, WP:IINFO. Also, I understand that prior to modern times most British politicians had some sort of military background.  Sandstein  12:02, 24 November 2017 (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.