Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of last words

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 keep. Consensus was that this article passes WP:NLIST. (non-admin closure) Rollidan (talk) 09:56, 19 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

List of last words[edit]

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Should be moved to Wikiquote, along with per-century sublists. -- Beland (talk) 08:04, 12 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Beland (talk) 08:04, 12 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Strong keep I feel like it is relevant to quote this from the article creator:

Lengthy quotation

Alright, I'm going to publish this into mainspace in a short while, and I can already feel the amount of rage from serious business activists and other WikiSnobs calling for deletion. So let me state my case for keep right away:
It is notable:

'Famous last words' googles to 30 000 000

'"Famous last words"' googles to 430 000

'"last words of"' googles to 500 000

Loads and loads of books have been dedicated to the subject of last words of famous people

It is already on Wikipedia:

'"last words"' gets 3500+ hits

Many, many biographies contains the person's last words, especially if doubted or frequently misattributed

Final statement#Examples is a list big enough to almost warrant its own article.

It does not belong solely on WikiQuote. Although they already have an article on this subject (which is disturbingly messy and unreferenced), Wikipedia is not by a long shot free from quotations, including stand-alone articles about quotations. Consider Category:Sayings of Jesus, Category:Shakespearean phrases, AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes and all the stand-alone articles linked from there. And don't forget the gigantic content of List of Latin phrases which almost makes us look like a dictionary. But it does not, because I'm sure we can agree that it is a notable topic. As is this.
So please think twice before shouting at me to get back(?) onto WikiQuote. Thank you.
— User:Gaioa, Talk:List of last words#A word of advice, 11 February 2018

Koopinator (talk) 11:28, 12 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That was me, and ugh that cringes me to see😅 Let's just say I was a bit passionate about things back in 2018. I hope you don't mind me making it collapsible, it's a pretty big block of text anyway. Furthermore, personally I've let go of this article since creating it and are mostly neutral about it's deletion - my spontaneous thought is WP:ITSUSEFUL but that's about it. Gaioa (T C L) 11:43, 12 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Keep A valid information list. History has recorded their last words, some of these on the list over two thousands years old and still remembered. Dream Focus 13:33, 12 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I don't see a valid case for deletion here. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 18:01, 12 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Four years later, I still agree with User:Gaioa's argument. Gildir (talk) 01:24, 13 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Sources support that WP:NLIST is met. MrsSnoozyTurtle 01:53, 13 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This goes on Wikiquote, not here. We are not meant to be a listing of everything known.John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:05, 14 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Nothing to delete here. Inspect61 (talk) 16:06, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Though it may seem like a trivia but still valid to keep here. >>> Extorc.talk(); 15:50, 17 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Fairly and squarely meets WP:LISTN. Hyperbolick (talk) 06:23, 18 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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