Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of living former sovereign monarchs

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The result was delete‎. ✗plicit 14:39, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

List of living former sovereign monarchs

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Fails WP:NOTDIRECTORY about listing of living monarchs, also largely unsourced. Absolutiva (talk) 14:06, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Lists of people and Royalty and nobility. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 14:27, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Well this is a shame, an article idea that is simultaneously really interesting but also kinda invented. In order to be a rock-solid idea for a WP article, there ought to be reliable sources that implicitly agree that it's notable by directly covering it. The closest I've found is a list of people who would be heirs[1] (not the same thing exactly) and also a factoid site that went more specific[2] - living former sovereign monarchs from World War II. Good for Final Jeopardy, not yet good enough for WP.

For the other nominated article (almost didn't see it), it's pretty much the same. Lots of articles almost-but-not-quite mentioning the category used in the article. These articles could live on as slightly wider categories, and they seem to be doing so already: [3][4]. Delete both. Wizmut (talk) 17:27, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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