Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of bow tie wearers (4th nomination)
Two areas of concern. The first is as stated above, there is a genuine question if this is encyclopedic enough () - do we want articles of the form ''"List of people who wear/don't wear clothing item X"''? Although harmless, it strays too far into "indiscriminate collection of information" and "non-encyclopedic cross-categorizations" for me. I'd also feel it is too marginal a topic to be really appropriate as a list.The other concern which applies if the content is kept or merged is, this is supposedly a list. But in fact the introduction and entire long first section is essentially full of bowtie promotion (!) - ''"A man's wearing of bow ties is often noticed and commented upon" ... "Men's clothier Jack Freedman told the New York Times that wearing a bow tie 'is a statement maker' " ... "can be a badge of courage" ... "have certainly helped businesses"'' -- sentence after sentence of "bowtie positive" allusions, quotations, and commercialization. None of this belongs in a "list of wearers". Whatever else may happen, if it's kept then as a list, this isn't needed, and if merged into bowtie this aspect probably needs a bit of review, balancing, or sanitizing
— user:FT2, 02:13, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NOT (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)