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The result was delete. Article was created in violation of Light show's topic ban. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 08:36, 18 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Celebrities who have received the COVID-19 vaccine (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

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Absolutely not notable. A number of figures in this list aren't even celebrities, but rather politicians. What, are we going to have to create another list called Politicians who have received the COVID-19 vaccine? What about Elderly people who have received the COVID-19 vaccine? New Zealanders who have received the COVID-19 vaccine? Why even point to any of these people in the first place? Unnecessary. Love of Corey (talk) 05:53, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Wikipedia doesn't need this, these are just a list who are already vaccinated by the COVID-19 vaccine. If you guys want to know who are already vaccinated, just watch news or YouTube. SeanJ 2007 (talk) 07:14, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 06:50, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of COVID-19-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 06:50, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete The vast majority of people will get a vaccine, making this list pointless. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 07:07, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Absolutely not appropriate, desirable or necessary. Gildir (talk) 07:16, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. About as selective as List of brunettes. The opposite criterion may be viable: List of celebrities who have publicly refused to be vaccinated. Clarityfiend (talk) 07:46, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per WP:NOTNEWS which discourages "routine news reporting of announcements, sports, or celebrities". Note also that there is no such thing as "the vaccine" – there are numerous vaccines of various types and these commonly require multiple shots and boosters. The evolution of the virus will no doubt be followed by an ongoing stream of vaccine variants too so recording this accurately would turn the page into a medical database. Andrew🐉(talk) 07:50, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep: I find it unbelievable that a slew of editors suddenly don't think a list like this is worth keeping. For instance:

"Which celebrity would Dr. Anthony Fauci like to publicly get the vaccine?"ABC News

"President Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama and a slew of celebrities including Billy Crystal, Jennifer Hudson and Lin-Manuel Miranda are part of a special aimed at boosting COVID-19 vaccination rates."AP, and was on an NBC prime time special.

Celebrity news beyond trivia is always notable. A review of the sources proves that easily, and those sources are usually focused on the people who had the vaccine. Example sources: People Magazine, USA Today, US Magazine, Glamour, BBC, Fortune, Business Insider, CBS News, Japan Times, Hollywood Reporter, New York Times. The list certainly does no harm to the vaccine issues, but with the controversies about anti-vaxers in the news, it clearly provides important information. At a time like this the benefit and notability of the people listed is obvious. As for including politicians or others that may not be considered celebrities, simply remove them, with a rationale.

The rationales mentioned above for deletion include sillilness, such as why not include a list of all seniors who got a shot, or all New Zealanders. Or that it's simply of list of brunettes, or other American celebrities, or we can simply turn on the TV news. As for one idea mentioned above: List of celebrities who have publicly refused to be vaccinated, that would be a good topic to promote against vaccination, despite the fact that most of the rationales for it are based on misinformation.

This very significant list only includes names, at this point, making it relatively brief. In comparison, a topic like Woody Allen sexual abuse allegation, is about 10,000 words—enough for a small book or scandal sheet. And that's a mere allegation, not a fact. In any case, the celebrities and sources could also be used in context within the main article, which could help balance out all the gratuitious anti-Trump commentary and the commentary about vaccine hesitancy . --Light show (talk) 08:46, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Being that the list is of primarily American celebrities, it would be understandable why it might be attacked as being biased, although no one has mentioned that as reason. So if there are any other editors who are Americans and want to delete the list, that could be helpful to note. Or better yet, if there are any non-U.S. celebrities that should be added to balance the list, feel free to add them.--Light show (talk) 09:23, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• I… don’t even know where to start. While I admire your impassioned defense of your article, it is not a notable or important subject in any way whatsoever. It’s a list of various famous people who did something logical during a pandemic. That’s like “list of notable London inhabitants who took measures to avoid getting blown up during the London Blitz”. Additionally, there is a vast difference between a highly publicized sexual assault accusation that’s been covered and discussed on-and-off for decades and somebody getting a shot. Finally, this isn’t exactly “sudden” when the article has been around for less than a month, and most editors had no idea it existed in that time. Dronebogus (talk) 09:29, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• • • @Dronebogus: I don’t know what magical land you live in, but a list of “people doing something logical during a pandemic” is not even ½ the population in many countries where getting a vaccine or wearing a mask is seen as virtue signaling and not an effective means of doing anything because the it’s all a hoax apparently. --awkwafaba (📥) 12:42, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
      • The “magical land” I inhabit is the United States and trust me I know what you’re talking about. But those people are to put it bluntly either severely ignorant or just plain dumb. Many of those people also believe the 2020 American Presidential Election was rigged but we don’t have an article on people who publicly disputed that claim. Dronebogus (talk) 12:57, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete indiscriminate, trivial, fleeting news-style notability. You know it’s terrible when even a passionately inclusionistic user like Andrew is voting delete. Dronebogus (talk) 09:11, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Totally trivial. I am utterly unconvinced by the long passionate keep view above. --Bduke (talk) 10:32, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - too indiscriminate of a list that goes against WP:NOTNEWS. --MuZemike 11:07, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Agreeing with everyone and nom, nearly every person will get the vaccine. There's really no point in this. Waddles 🗩 🖉 12:15, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. We don't have lists of notable people who're vaccinated against measles or diphtheria, or any other disease, so why this? Assuming current take-up rates, eventually between 70% and 80% of the adults on the planet will be vaccinated so it's not a notable characteristic in any way. Neiltonks (talk) 12:27, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - @Neiltonks: there’s a reason we have WikiProject COVID-19 and not WP Measles nor WP Diptheria. This list has far more in common with List of Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign celebrity endorsements than list of brunettes. I’m glad so many of you move in circles where getting vaccinated is totally normal and non-controversial, but for a large portion of the planet, that is not the case. --awkwafaba (📥) 12:42, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • You’re treating scientifically proven public health programs as equivalent to political campaigns. If vaccination is not “totally normal and uncontroversial” in your circle you are either in a country with a deficient healthcare system or are among pseudoscientific fringe groups, and I don’t think these celebrities are even trying to reach either of them by getting a shot. Dronebogus (talk) 12:49, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

While you may not think so, an abundance of news stories from Europe, especially the UK, have been trying to reach and convince skeptics, with some notables boasting about getting vaccinated:

"British Health Secretary Matt Hancock called the 75% milestone a big step forward, but he warned that “a worldwide pandemic of misinformation” threatened the vaccination campaign. ... Hancock said Britain had bolstered vaccine confidence by using “trusted voices” — including naturalist David Attenborough and Queen Elizabeth II — to disclose that they had received a shot and to deliver a pro-vaccine message." AP
"Celebrities are coming forward with their firsthand accounts of receiving the COVID-19 vaccine in an effort to quell skepticism as vaccination efforts roll out across the world. ...Duchess Kate Middleton announced on Twitter that she got her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on May 28, a little more than a week after her husband Prince William.  ...Prince William joined #teamvaccinated announcing he got his COVID-19 shot on Twitter.... "On Tuesday (May 18) I received my first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.  … it was announced that Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall had received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine. … Queen Elizabeth II, 94, and her husband, Prince Philip, 99, received their COVID-19 vaccinations, according to Buckingham Palace. ... "Yesterday I received my first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at London’s Science Museum. ‘’USA Today’’
"Covid vaccine: PM receives AstraZeneca jab as he urges public to do same."BBC --Light show (talk) 18:06, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

• Note:The article at issue has been modified to add context and a lead to the list of names. The list is now a subsection to support key aspects of the article. --Light show (talk) 19:19, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

And with articles like this one, despite the attack on its viability, we may actually catch up to you guys.[1] watch us. --Light show (talk) 23:27, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• • You will bury us, Nikita Khrushchev, I’m certain. Dronebogus (talk) 06:55, 18 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Per WP:DELREASON#14: Any other content not suitable for an encyclopedia, specifically because Wikipedia is not a place for non-encyclopedic cross-categorizations. At time of writing, the cumulative number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered is nearing six billion, per Johns Hopkins. Of course we don't know how many of those are second doses given to individuals who have already received their first dose (it could theoretically be up to half), but the lower bound for the number vaccinated individuals still exceeds a third of the global population. That a significant number of celebrities would be included is not exactly astonishing, and trying to list them all is WP:INDISCRIMINATE. TompaDompa (talk) 12:54, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete this kind of list is impossible to maintain when countless people have been vaccinated routinely, and violates not only WP:INDISCRIMINATE but also WP:NOTNEWS. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 21:43, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per WP:NOTEVERYTHING. The last thing we need is more celebrity culture. Miniapolis 23:29, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: Patent WP:INDISCRIMINATE. JavaHurricane 05:50, 18 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment: Coincidentally, the same editor who opened this AfD is also deleting a section of pure commentary—not a list— on a similar topic from another article COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. --Light show (talk) 07:15, 18 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • The fact that you’re bringing it up means you likely don’t think it’s coincidental. Dronebogus (talk) 07:17, 18 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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