Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Christian authors


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The result was delete. Mailer Diablo 16:08, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

List of Christian authors
Delete. POV (thousands are Christian - how are these twenty distinct?), indiscriminate, incompletable, arbitrary, unencyclopedic - CrazyRussian talk/email 10:40, 12 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete as per nom. Dionyseus 10:44, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Per nom.  If the article is supposed to list authors who refer to Christianity in their work, we already have Category:Christian writers (+subcats) and Category:Christian novelists, which is a better way of doing it.   Mr Stephen 11:01, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. -- GWO
 * Delete per Mr Stephen. At best a duplication of the categories mentioned. Tevildo 13:31, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is a category masquerading as an article.  Powers 13:54, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep Slight misunderstanding. The authors on this list write about Christian topics, not simply authors who profess the Christian faith (except for maybe a few...Danielle Steele?).  I see two courses of action we can take.  We can rename it to something  else like "Authors of Christianity" or "Christian writers", or we can explain the list as I did here.  Either way, this list is very useful, and no category is feasible because they cannot be annotated and explained, as in the case of Tolkein, who did write of Christianity, but may be questioned by some.  See my edit here.  That is why lists are better than categories.AdamBiswanger1 16:38, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. Better than a category since it can be annotated. --JJay 16:33, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. There is no article on the topic of Christian authors, suggesting that this is not a recognized, coherent, encyclopedic concept. In general, there should not be a List of X unless there is an article on X. The list should initially be part of the article until it grows big enough to warrant breakout. There is an article on Christian literature, and these could be added to the appropriate sections of that article. Dpbsmith (talk) 18:15, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete this list and add the examples to the appropriate sections of Christian literature. That also clears up the ambiguity problem. GassyGuy 18:35, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, categories already exist for this sort of thing. -- nae'blis (talk) 19:35, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom. If this should ever grow to anything approaching representativity of all the various facets of Christianity, it would have to outgrow all maintainable bounds. Fut.Perf. ☼ 22:35, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. —C.Fred (talk) 03:25, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete As it's covered by List of Catholic authors, List of Protestant authors, List of Latter-day Saints, and List of Eastern Orthodox Christians. Granted none of those deal with Anglicans or Oriental Orthodoxy, but lists for those can be done. A vast "List of Christian authors" regardless of denomination would be enormous. Possibly though this could be some kind of disambig to those lists. I just hope mentioning those doesn't get the Protestant and Catholic author lists AfD'd as many people worked hard on them including me.--T. Anthony 14:06, 17 July 2006 (UTC)


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