Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of liberal leaders (0th nomination)

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List of liberal leaders[edit]

This list was turned into a category, the article even says so.... Also, it is very POV, as it does not list leaders of parties with "Liberal" in their names, but rather leaders of political movements who espouse to be liberal or are espoused to be liberal. And liberal is taken to mean left leaning instead of liberal. Incidentally, the category itself is listed on CfD because of it's POV-ness, and deletion was asented to. 132.205.15.42 00:28, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Delete. Necessarily POV. --Improv 16:25, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

The list is empty, so it cannot be POV. Originally the list included people from Malagodi to Einaudi, from Von Bennigsen to Scheel, from Bolkestein to Van Mierlo, so left leaning ?. --Gangulf 17:19, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Seems to have been somewhat effectively replaced by a decent categorizatoin system, delete. —siro χ o 22:48, Oct 6, 2004 (UTC)
Redirect to List of left-wing leaders or similar. Liberal is too variant a term to be of encyclopaedic use. 80.255 18:00, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- I think the last user didn't read my last comment. How can anybody call Frits Bolkestei, Einaudi or Malagodi a left-wing leader? --Gangulf 18:25, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Actually, the opposite is true -
Keep, and restore content if the category is being deleted. Liberal is a specific political term with an accepted definition that provides a set of characteristics against which candidates for this list can be objectively judged. (With regard to a comment above, it's left-wing that's the variant term. Liberal is a well-defined term, even if it is sometimes mis-used.) -- Gregg 22:51, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Keep.--Dittaeva 12:43, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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