Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lists of surnames
per #DIRECTORY and . Others have argued there's no encyclopedic content at all here, just a list of names, and I won't disagree. The main additional point I want to raise is that there's no |verification at all. Without sources, how we tell whether an item on the list really is a common name or not? The claim that particular names are common (iand others not on the list are presumably not) appears to be entirely based on editor's own |original research. Editors who wish the lists kept need, at a minimum, to show that |reliable sources exist capable of making |verification possible. This simply hasn't been done
— User:Shirahadasha, 05:31, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NOT||WP:V||WP:V||WP:OR||WP:RS||WP:V (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)