Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

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The result was Withdrawn. Withdrawing nom, I'm obviously in the minority here, so this unsourced soup of names is going to stay. Randykitty (talk) 12:17, 27 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

List of members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

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WP is not the place to post a membership directory. Randykitty (talk) 22:36, 26 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per WP:CLN and WP:NOTDUP. If it's important enough to categorize people by Category:Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, then a list is appropriate too. Moreover, broken up and browseable the way the list is, by discipline, it's a perfect example of the advantages of such a list, over a category. I'm a little surprised by the nomination, coming from an administrator, as WP:CLN is rather basic policy. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 22:46, 26 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 22:47, 26 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Europe-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 22:47, 26 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep We have many such lists of members of learned societies. I attended an editathon on Monday which was focussed on a similar set of academics -- women classicists. Such lists are quite helpful for such activity -- helping us identify missing topics. Andrew D. (talk) 23:18, 26 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep especially in view of discussions like the one at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 September 16#Category:Fellows of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (which I disagree with, but discovered too late to contribute) according to which a list may be a better way than a category to keep this sort of information. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:18, 27 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per WP:Categories, lists, and navigation templates#Advantages of a list. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 05:10, 27 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Lists, categories, and templates all serve different purposes, which is why we can have all three of them on a similar topic. However, exactly because they serve different goals, they also look different. A category is a bare list of wikilinked articles. A template helps in navigation. A list however, should be different. Yes, we have many lists of members of learned societies. Just click on a random one in that category and compare it to this list. Those lists give some more information than a bare list of names, which is at it should be for lists. The list under discussion here is a bare list of names, most not even wikilinked. As WP:NOTDUP (like WP:CLN a guideline, BTW, not policy) states: "lists may include features not available to categories". This is not that. I also note that the vast majority entries in this list are not sourced to anything. In short, I argue that WP:TNT applies here. --Randykitty (talk) 08:58, 27 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. I'm also quite baffled by this nomination. The topic meets WP:LISTN and WP:CLN. If it's missing extra context and referencing, the obvious solution would seem to be to add that information, rather than delete the article. WP:TNTTNT applies... – Joe (talk) 11:56, 27 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – One thing that even a bare list like this can do, and categories can't, is to provide a full list of members. Such a list is useful in providing incentive to create articles and to help establishing notability, similar to lists in Category:Wikipedia missing topics. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 12:12, 27 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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