Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people with coronavirus disease 2019
At the time of this posting, Wikipedia has articles on over https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Living_people 945,000 living people; this number gets much higher if you count foreign language Wikipedias. The coronavirus is a global pandemic that will infect a good portion of the people on this list; even if slightly more than 2% get infected this article will have 20,000 names on it. This is an |indiscriminate collection of information. I've seen editors compare this list to articles like List of HIV-positive people or List of people with type 1 diabetes. Even assuming these other articles are appropriate (which I do not necessarily believe to be true), they are different because they document people with life-long disabilities; the vast majority of people who get coronavirus will recover without issue. This article would be far more comparable to List of people who got the flu, List of people who got H1N1 or List of people who broke a bone. I also believe that generally privacy rights are an issue
— User:Spirit, 02:04, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:INDISCRIMINATE (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)