Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of notable people who wore the bowler hat
Yes, I created the original version of this article, which was demerged from the Bowler hat article, where it occupied 60% of the space. No, I had no idea there even was a bow tie controversy until reading here, so WP:POINT is NOT an issue. This article's content was the subject of a minor delete/edit war on Bowler hat, and thinking that I could de-escalate that, I off-loaded it as a {{main}}type list article. We do have many dedicated list articles on WP--- see . In any case, this accounts for the large amount of info appearing suddenly (and yes, I noticed the Clockwork Orange guys are missing, too).  Should this thing be kept? Well, the Bowler hat makes something more of a fashion statement than a bowtie, and always did. Why this is, I do not know. This article was created piecemeal by very many contributors, and if it's gone, people will just start adding these things one at a time again to the Bowler hat article. That's rather unlikely that this would happen to the bow tie article, since there are so many other famous wearers. It's a bad idea to delete an article which will be piecemeal re-created, by people who had no idea of its initial existence! But what do you think of, when you think of Oddjob or Laurel and Hardy or Bat Masterson?  Yes, the thing needs to be sectioned into real and fictional characters, and they need some kind of order. But we can't do that, if you delete it.  I'm a little shocked that people would say "might be encyclopedic in the future, but meanwhile since it isn't, delete it." That's not the way Wikipedia grows! A last issue is that many list articles have references embedded in the links they reference. For example: List of people who've been beheaded. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_been_beheaded. Similarly, very many links in this list article are similar referenced, by a direct photo or drawing of somebody wearning a bowler, in the linked Wiki itself
— User:Sbharris, 02:12, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:LISTS (Wikipedia:Lists)