Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of bow tie wearers (4th nomination)
This is going to be boring because some of my comments are going to be repeats of comments I made in previous AfDs, but it's not my fault that we are being subjected to repeated AfDs for this article. The phenomenon documented by this list is notable. The vast majority of the entries on this list are notable men (and fictional characters) whose habit of wearing bow ties has been widely remarked upon in reliable sources (for example, for many of the real people who have died, bow-tie-wearing is mentioned in the first sentence of the obituary). This is not original research -- contributors have worked hard to ensure that every entry on the list is sourced, and many of the list entries are based on lists in published articles about the phenomenon of bow-tie-wearing. It would be logical to merge this into Bow tie, but that would not be desirable because the resulting article would be excessively long (this list article is over 40k by itself). Combining the two articles would merely create a new problem needing a new solution. For the people on this list, "wearing of bow ties" is not a trivial association. The overwhelming emphasis of the sources cited and quoted in this article is on the bow tie as a major, deliberately chosen element of a man's identity or public image. How else to explain (for example) the university president who capitalizes on his reputation for a "trademark bow tie" by calling his travels around the state "Bow Tie Bus Tours"? Or how about the TV journalist who stopped wearing bow ties when he joined CBS because a network official told him that Charles Osgood was CBS' bow-tie-wearing personality and "We can't have two guys wearing bow ties"? Or how about the politicians who are nicknamed "Bow Tie" by their opponents and/or supporters? This is an association that goes beyond mere personal taste. An earlier commenter urged people to avoid making  arguments. I also suggest avoiding  arguments, which is what most of the arguments for deletion have been
— User:Orlady, 03:20, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS||WP:IDONTLIKEIT (Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions)