Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of General Slocum victims (2nd nomination)
per #DIR. It is incorrect to claim that Wikipedia policy for keeping all victim lists is established by the two precedents cited. Mentioning the number and general characteristics of the victims suffices for historical purposes. A telephone-book like list of names serves no purpose. Millions of people died in airplane crashes, plagues, wars, steamboat explosions, famines, typhoons, earthquakes, and other mass casualty events. Most such lists of dead people have been deleted in AFDs.  For the Virginia Tech victim list, the summary on the article's talk page says "The result of the discussion was Keep - No Consensus for deletion" The Columbine article AFD summary on the article's talk page says "This article was nominated for deletion on 18/4/2007. The result of the discussion was no consensus." It takes more than "No consensus" to establish a policy of keeping victim lists for otherwise non-notable people who were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Perhaps such victim lists could be trans-wikied to Wikisource. Then descendants of the unfortunate dead could have the pleasure of looking up their ancestors. But Wikipedia is not a genealogical database of non-notable people
— User:Edison, 04:33, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NOT (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)