Talk:List of people from Houston

Request for Comment

A page similar to this one. List of people from San Francisco, is currently under review as an article for deletion, for reasons which would apply to this article as well. I am conducting an RfC on the talk page of the above-mentioned list to determine whether the concensus agrees on keeping such lists or not. Any and all comments are more than welcome. Badbilltucker 16:23, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Orphaned references in List of people from Houston

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Reference named "Distinguished":

• From Mary Kay Ash: "Distinguished HISD Alumni." Houston Independent School District.
• From JoBeth Williams: "Distinguished HISD Alumni," Houston Independent School District'. Retrieved on January 13, 2011.

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Poorly sourced

As usual, this list article of notable people is poorly sourced. It has been tagged for this since 2017. In addition, it makes several dubious claims. People from Spring, Katy, and Cypress are not from Houston. As the article says this is for people who have lived in Houston, not in the Houston area. Oldsanfelipe2 (talk) 17:14, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

Agreed (wholeheartedly). I try to fend off new additions if they're unsourced (even when the subject's WP article has the refs available on it), as this list should at least not get any worse. My idea is to add refs and throw out unsubstantiable entries "as convenient", but realistically, I'll never do the whole page by myself. So if you (or anybody) see somebody who's (say) only from Katy, feel free to delete them mercilessly. If somebody wants to add somebody to the list, it's up to them to provide a reference citation. — JohnFromPinckney (talk) 22:54, 24 September 2020 (UTC)