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List of 9/11 victims

Hi. Can you please expand your closing statement and explain how you arrived at your conclusions (including why you decided to close at this time and not relist). Thanks, Levivich 14:45, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

Hi Levivich. I am not sure what to add to expand the closing statement. As I mentioned, from reading the discussion there seems to be consensus that the subject of the list is notable, and also that being a list of deaths doesn't immediately exclude it as a memorial. There is plenty of discussion around the list being trimmed, which is a separate matter from deletion. I certainly could not see a policy based consensus to delete. As for relisting, it seemed that there had been a significant discussion, with LISTN and NOTMEMORIAL discussed in depth and didn't see scope for much new coming out of a relisting. Do you feel that a relisting would likely lead to a policy based consensus for anything other that the article being kept? TigerShark (talk) 15:49, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick response!

I'd start by saying that "keep"/"delete" aren't the only two outcomes. Had you considered the others, like merge and "keep title/change content"?

Second, I know you said from reading the discussion there seems to be consensus: can you explain that? Where do you see consensus, or how did you come to conclude there was consensus? Is it in the number of votes for one option v. the other? Is it in the quality of arguments? Did you weigh some votes more or less than other votes? Did you discount any votes?

What about the WP:PAGEDECIDE part of WP:N? Even if it's notable, that doesn't mean necessarily mean it must be kept. Many editors seemed to raise arguments beyond just "does it meet N", how did those arguments factor into the consensus?

What about the arguments that, while the subject is notable, it's already covered by the non-list article (Casualties of 9/11); i.e., the WP:FORK argument? The Casualties article was discussed by many voters, but I don't see that in the closing statement.

On the numbers, it seems like a 50/50 split between keep and delete. But then when you factor in the "or merge" and the "keep the title but not the content", the numbers favor delete. Even aside from the numbers, there were some arguments like, "keep, meets LISTN", which totally ignored the rationale for deletion (meeting LISTN is not an "automatic keep"), and I think those votes should be weighed less.

So if anything, I see a weak consensus towards delete/merge, but really it's pretty close to no consensus, which is why I think a relisting might help clarify the consensus, particularly when there hasn't been a relist yet.

Basically if there are a ton of !voters participating and the numbers are 50/50 or close to it, I believe it should be relisted. Levivich 16:16, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for your message. I wouldn't strongly disagree that the close could have been a "no consensus" rather than a straight keep, but I couldn't see any clear likelihood of consensus for anything else forming, as things currently stand. It may be that some bolding editing (perhaps attempts at the proposed trimming) and further discussion on the article's talk page may be the best way forward for now. A future relisting at AfD might be appropriate after some work to the articles and/or more talk page discussion, but I don't personally feel that it would be best to jump straight into a relist now. TigerShark (talk) 18:42, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

I generally agree with that, and I recognize there is little practical difference between a keep and no-consensus outcome. But my issue isn't with the result, it's with the closing statement, which I don't think accurately summarizes the discussion, and I think this inaccuracy will have a negative affect on further talk page discussion, because editors will point to the closing statement as "proof" that there is consensus to keep the article as it is. Specifically, the sentences There does not seem to be significant disagreement that the subject of list itself is notable. There also seems to be consensus that not all lists of deaths are non-notable memorials.. What is missing is that -- at least in my view -- there was consensus that the list should not remain in its current form; that is, there was consensus that we should not have a list of all the victims of 9/11. I also disagree with each of the statements individually:

• "There does not seem to be significant disagreement that the subject of list itself is notable." There is consensus that the group is notable, not that the list meets notability guidelines. A lot of people's arguments centered around the non-notability of most of the members of the group. In other words, there wasn't consensus that the list met WP:N, but it sounds like you're saying there was.
• "There also seems to be consensus that not all lists of deaths are non-notable memorials." Really? I think more than half the participants (like all of the delete/merge voters?) specifically said the opposite, at least for this list, that it violates NOTDIRECTORY and NOTMEMORIAL. (In fact, NOTDIRECTORY was a very common argument, but is not mentioned in the closing statement.)

I fear these two statements will impede future talk page discussion. I think a more accurate summary would be something like, "while there was no consensus to delete the page, editors broadly agreed that the page should either be culled to notable entries or merged, or some combination thereof, which can be decided through future talk page discussion." Anyway, thanks for discussing this with me, I'll leave it at that. Levivich 19:23, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Consensus that the group is notable ipso facto means that WP:NLIST is met. I also don't read the closing statement as weighing in on the question of the appropriate selection criteria for the list at all, which is to say that it doesn't affirm the current way that the list is structured. My reading of the close is that there is consensus that (1) some lists of people who died in an event are notable, and that (2) the people who died on 9/11 are notable as a group. This does not mean that a list has to include every single member who is a part of that notable group (much like how List of Russian Americans certainly doesn't include every single Russian American).

@Levivich: I do not believe a relist is appropriate; relisting is for when the discussion has only a few participants (including the nominator), or it seems to be lacking arguments based on policy. If you believe that there has been substantive debate, disparate opinions supported by policy have been expressed, and consensus has not been achieved, a close of no consensus would be the way to go rather than a relist. — Ⓜ️hawk10 (talk) 04:40, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Further to this: (1) None of the opposing rationales adequately explained why this list is not notable. (2) None of the opposing rationales adequately explained why a list covering a notable topic infringes NOTDIRECTORY or NOTMEMORIAL. In the case of the latter, it expressly identifies that its basis is that memorial pages generally lack notability. Many responses simply cited those principles in a fairly perfunctory manner without addressing (1) or (2), both of which were squarely raised by Mhawk10 in their early response. No other result was reasonably available here. The closing statement, in my view, cut right to the heart of the issue and concisely summarised it. Also, given Misplaced Pages is not a bureaucracy, closing admins need not give elaborate reasons rejecting every single proposition put forward, otherwise AfD would grind to a halt. Local Variable (talk) 09:02, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Megan Huntsman

Hi, I am hoping you can provide some further explanation for your close of this AfD. I am wondering how a policy-based consensus was found for this article to be kept per WP:EVENT. Thank you, Beccaynr (talk) 02:57, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Also, due to the extensive discussion in the AfD, would you be willing to undo the move and relist the discussion so further participation could happen, as suggested in the previous relist note? A relist note could be added indicating that it would be helpful to have further discussion about whether WP:EVENT notability is supported. Thank you, Beccaynr (talk) 03:09, 6 July 2022 (UTC)