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List of people by reported SAT score was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete.

This survived VfD on 5 September, 2004. It has not been substantially improved since then, particularly in the area of verifiability. The article contains its own deletion justification, namely "many of these scores are unverified." A correct statement would be that none of them are verified, since there no citations at all. On examining the discussion it seems to me that many of the votes against deletion are highly qualified, some feeling it should be kept only if verified and many feeling that the verifiable information should be merged into SAT. There are indications in this edit history that this page attracts prank and borderline-vandalism edits. I think it's appropriate to reconsider this. The previous VfD discussion appears below. My own vote is delete. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 14:22, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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  • Delete. Unverifiable and un-expandable beyond a couple dozen entries. --Gene s 14:43, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete. Not a suitable subject. Scores are confidential, this list is based on the Time magazine article referenced, which lists ten people and says Here's how some famous folks told us they did on their SATs. Arguably both original research and a copyvio as is, and if expanded by asking more people it would then certainly be original research. Andrewa 16:40, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete. —tregoweth 16:43, Dec 13, 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete. Houshuang 18:24, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Conditional delete. [[User:GRider|GRider\talk]] 18:58, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete: DCEdwards1966 19:19, Dec 13, 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete'. Unverifiable and unmaintainable. Jayjg 19:35, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete - it's either unverifiable, or it's incredibly invasive. Cdc 00:10, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete on general principle that all these idiot lists make Wikipedia look like a nest of wankers. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 01:46, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete - points already made above (and below, for that matter) -- Cyrius| 06:49, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete, for the same reason other lists of this type have been deleted: it's totally unverifiable. Shane King 06:57, Dec 14, 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete - even if someone's score can be verified, it should part of the article about that person, with a link to SAT - Skysmith 08:54, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep, and let every self-important 17-year-old put himself on the list, too, right after he writes an article on his high school. Just kidding. Delete. EventHorizon 04:03, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete. Edeans 06:54, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion or on the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.


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