Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of former Roman Catholic priests


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The result was speedy keep. Withdrawn by nominator. (non-admin closure) &#124;  Uncle Milty  &#124;  talk  &#124;  23:59, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

List of former Roman Catholic priests

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I believe this fails WP:NLIST. It is unreferenced, it has the potential to be a gigantic list, and is totally replacable by a category, which I do not believe exist but which I suggest we should create after this AfD (Category:Former priests). Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 07:55, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment - since we have List of Catholic priests, is this category not just a sister topic to that? &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 09:54, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:04, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Christianity-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:04, 9 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep, easily passes WP:LISTPURP as an index of articles grouped by a shared, verifiable and highly significant biographical fact. WP:NLIST is accordingly unhelpful and irrelevant here, and the fact that the nominator thinks that a category should be created based on the same grouping undermines their complaint that it's somehow inappropriate as a list. The nomination is contra WP:NOTDUP ("totally replaceable by a category") and WP:NOTCLEANUP (the claim is that it's presently "unreferenced", not that it is unverifiable by any stretch), and the nominator should be reminded to follow WP:BEFORE, including by reviewing all relevant guidelines before nominating anything for deletion. postdlf (talk) 23:44, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
 * And this is a matter for editing, but I think renaming it to List of laicized or excommunicated Roman Catholic priests would better highlight why this is significant information for this particular profession, and not just a trivial "people who gave up being musicians" type of list that we normally would not maintain separately. postdlf (talk) 23:46, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep most definitely meets WP:NLIST as the subject has been discussed as a group before.--Prisencolin (talk) 03:18, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep agree with two comments above me. This is a list I have looked for before and I believe it is necessary. As said above, it certainly meets notability guidelines. Jgefd (talk) 17:33 10 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I am withdrawing the nomination. Seems I misunderstood part of the policy about the lists and categories; I thought gigantic, unreferenced lists duplicating categories are not welcome; seems I was wrong. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 06:01, 11 March 2016 (UTC)


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