Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lists of Jewish-Americans

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was I am going to Speedy keep this because the nomination is flawed and is probably a violation of WP:POINT, and there have not been any delete opinions expressed. - CrazyRussian talk/email 17:01, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List of Jewish Americans

This is to be fair. The List of Irish-Americans page is up deletion, so this page should be too. Fair2224 03:16, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. (Liberatore, 2006). 11:43, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm torn, leaning Weak keep. (I'm just copying my comments from the other AFD.) Obviously, we CANNOT delete just one of these lists by ethnicity - it needs to be an all or nothing proposition. Lists on Wikipedia are useful if they either (a) provide meaningful information that you can't get out of a category (eg a table like this) or (b) include redlinked elements to assist in the creation of articles. This list contains really only a citation ... so there is no added value from that standpoint for having a list vs a category - the citation could just as easily be in the article itself. It contains very few redlinks ... and really, in the time you take to add someone to the list, you could create a stub for them. So I don't know that these lists really serve any good purpose that couldn't be accomplished by a category. However, because it would be wholly inappropriate to delete them piecemeal, keep. BigDT 13:05, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, "to be fair" isn't really a valid reason for deletion. This is a "list of lists", and while I personally don't like second level lists like this all that much, I don't see a compelling reason to delete them either.--Isotope23 13:50, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
If you vote keep on this, please also then vote keep on the Irish-American lists. 75.3.49.50 14:01, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Judaism-related deletions. - CrazyRussian talk/email 14:13, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - this list serves as an important focal point for the lists of American Jews and is clearer and more accesible than the category. It is necessary. Nesher 14:45, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - No reason given for deletion. Bad nomination. This could probably just as well be a category though. Wickethewok 15:50, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Keep — We've been down this road before. :-) — RJH (talk) 16:06, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.