Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2012 Time 100
to Time 100.  requires "significant coverage" of the topic. Most of the sources are of the type "X appeared in the list". This is mindlessly appending a news articles to each item of the list in order to say that it's cited, a violation of  and . We don't add content just because it's verifiable. Those sources are really about the mentioned people and they belong in their article, not in the article about the list
— NONE, NONE
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:GNG||WP:NOTNEWS||WP:NOTCATALOG (Wikipedia:Notability)