Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Convicts on the First Fleet
A clearly encyclopedic list of the people involved in the most significant event in the history of Australia. I hate to bring out  argument but how can List of Australia Test cricketers|lists of sportsmen be considered notable and not the people who founded the modern nation of Australia? I wonder at the priorities of some editors ... The list is elsewhere, so what? '''All''' our content is elsewhere, otherwise it would be original research. "What does this list tell us?" Where to start answering a question like this one. The list, quite obviously tells us the name, origin and other information about the founders of Australia, a nation uniquely (?) founded as a prison colony. The list is not indiscriminate, inclusion in the list is very strictly defined and verifiable. The setout of the list needs improving and addtional information added, the list should be made sortable by name, ship, offence, origin, sentence, fate etc. and the lede needs improving but that is not a reason to delete. This is exactly the sort of list that should be '''encouraged''' not deleted. I for one feel an encyclopedia that includes List of Pokémon but not this one is barely worthy of the name
— User:Mattinbgn, 11:31, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS (Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions)