664:, Is it considered ok to just delete this many articles all in one go? Editors have spent many hours editing them so I don't think its very courteous. I have probably spent the most hours creating and editing these pages so this is my comment: 1. These lists can ONLY be found on Knowledge. I know this because I made many of them. Researching these lists were very difficult, so the idea that the lists can be easily found is just wrong. The government website does not have historic lists of these officeholders and it wasn't easy writing them up. 2. There's clearly things of note in these articles and the links work. The ministerial offices were being searched for, and the original redirects to the department was misleading I thought. And the one example you use,
690:. I meant absolutely no disrespect to you or any other editor in making this nomination. To avoid mass deletions, to be courteous and to hear the views of others (to name just three reasons) is why we have a nomination process and why I also started a similar discussion several months ago, but I now understand that these were too many articles to nominate at once. I am going to withdraw this AfD and will think very carefully about what you have said before making a decision to renominate any article. I only singled out
672:), some of these ministerial offices have even been members of the cabinet; so why are they less notable? The Offices exist just as much as the other ministers. 4. These lists are probably more notable than the civil servant lists in the agencies and departments of the US Federal Government. These articles are in a similar style, with the history of the role, the responsibilities of the office, and the holders of office listed.
590:(after edit conflict) Isn't "a summary of the office holder's responsibilities and a list of past incumbents" exactly the type of information that we would expect to be in an encyclopedia? The nominator seems to have the idea that we shouldn't have information that can be found elsewhere. That is a complete reversal of our notability and verifiability rules.
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