Deletion of List of Largest empires

Comment: Article has potential to be a good group of lists.  '''|Verification''' is important however, and should be a goal in all edits going forward.  As nobody owns articles on Wikipedia, abandonment by the original author, if true, is totally irrelevant.  Abandonment by the community might be relevant, but the talk page amply demonstrates that is not an issue.  And for something like this, where the truth doesn't exactly change every day, community abandonment would not be a big issue
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:V)

Comment: How is the ''subject'' of this article unencylcopaedic? Unless that can be answered, this articel should not be deleted. Which part of |the deletion policy does this article fail? Yes, it needs work, and sources, but instead of AfDing it, {{sofixit
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Deletion policy (WP:DP)

Comment: For a change this is a list of the kind that actually belongs in Wikipedia, so the article's active editors should probably be given a chance to clean it up. It appears they have not realised so far that  might lead to an article this poorly cited being deleted. Perhaps this nomination will be the spur they need to get some solid references in there. Let's revisit this in a few months; if it's still not adequately verifiable by then, it should of course be deleted. &mdash
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:V)