This article was nominated for deletion on 4 August 2010 (UTC). The result of the discussion was keep.
A fact from List of successful English Channel swimmers appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 August 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons (BLP) policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourcedmust be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted, or if you have other concerns, please report the issue to this noticeboard.If you are a subject of this article, or acting on behalf of one, and you need help, please see this help page.
This article is rated List-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Swimming, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Swimming on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.SwimmingWikipedia:WikiProject SwimmingTemplate:WikiProject Swimmingswimming articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Lists, an attempt to structure and organize all list pages on Wikipedia. If you wish to help, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.ListsWikipedia:WikiProject ListsTemplate:WikiProject ListsList articles
The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
List of successful English Channel swimmers → List of notable English Channel swimmers – This title would clarify that this is not a complete list of successful English Channel swimmers. Yes, swimming the channel is an amazing feat by most people's standards, but it isn't enough for a place in this article (there are other places for such lists). Good-faith editors often add "common or garden" successful swims to this list, and have to be reverted. The current list title is misleading as it suggests an inclusive list. There may well be a better title than the one I suggest - and I suggest that the list itself should include a clearer criterion of what goes into the "First swims" table, to clarify that it's not any random swimmer's first swim, but a "first" in some wider category. PamD 14:20, 24 September 2020 (UTC) —Relisting.BegbertBiggs (talk) 23:41, 2 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. WP:LISTNAME suggests avoiding words like "notable" in list article titles, in favor of detailing inclusion criteria in the lead. Of course, there can be exceptions to any guideline. Station1 (talk) 06:51, 25 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Leaning oppose, only because the proposed title suggests that the list would include notable people who swam in the English Channel, rather than those who succeeded in crossing it. BD2412T21:23, 18 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Two different Macedonian men seem to be claiming first Macedonian, and Winnie the Canadian has a duplicate entry near the bottom of the Firsts table. Lynn Ami (talk) 07:31, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
