Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of gay, lesbian, or bisexual academics


 * 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 Delete. Enochlau 09:12, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

List of gay, lesbian, or bisexual academics
A very extraneous, possibly inaccurate (even for the confirms), and all around pointless listing. These people's being gay has no say in their work in academics - for an example of appropriate listings like this - see list of Roman Catholics. Also, I highly doubt anyone looks up academics according to their sexual preference. Antidote 21:45, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete listcruft. --Aurochs (Talk | Block)
 * Delete. Speculation-like useless double entry list. --Edcolins 22:02, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I actually am not in favor of list entries and in general think that they work better as categories, but I disagree strongly with the suggestion that the content makes this inappropriate or that List of Roman Catholics is somehow more legitimate or relevant than List of gay, lesbian, or bisexual academics. Tim Pierce 22:07, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Disagreeign with my reasoning gives no reason to vote keep on a page you would normally vote delete on. And list of Roman Catholics IS more legitimate than this because it actually lists professions in which being a Catholic makes a huge difference - such as Church Music. Antidote 22:21, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
 * What makes you think I would "normally" vote to delete this page? I haven't voted to delete any other lists. :-)  The time may come when I decide to do that, but it is not my approach now.  In any case, I disagree entirely that religion is inherently more relevant to one's profession than sexual orientation, or that one of these lists is intrinsically more valuable than the other.  I vote to keep for now. Tim Pierce 22:28, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Clearly you do not understand my reference to list of Roman Catholics because I never said or hinted that I think religion is inherently more relevant to one's profession than sexual orientation Antidote 23:04, 7 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete. And don't create List of gay, lesbian, or bisexual African-American academics who smoked pot in their youth. mikka (t) 22:14, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per Tim Pierce. -- JJay 22:15, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I see no problem with this. If we can have lists of Jewish bankers (it's a real article, people, even survived VFD!), then why not this? Coolgamer 22:59, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
 * But it didn't survive AfD. --Aurochs (Talk | Block)
 * My mistake. I could have sworn it had survived at least once. My point was it's not as absurd as other lists out there. Coolgamer 19:14, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and edit for relevance - i.e. academics whose published work focuses on gay, lesbian, or bisexual themes. Durova 23:59, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
 * That would require writing a better intro and renaming the article. In this case I am ready to revert my vote. mikka (t) 00:04, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Durova, this is what I stated in the nom - if the list were to have LGBT's who focused on their LGBT themes in their work...then fine...but this is not the list, so you are voting keep for a list you don't want for none of these people have any work on gayness that is of importance here. Antidote 05:05, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete list cruft, this is what categories are for.Gateman1997 00:18, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete this has got to be a joke EscapeArtistsNeverDie 01:30, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom. Olorin28 04:09, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. Out of control listmania. Eusebeus 07:50, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete listcruft. Just zis Guy, you know? [T]/[C] (W) AfD? 12:18, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete In addition to the fact that I don't want to start seeing wikipedians get into arguments over whether or not someone's behavior qualifies them as gay, this is just more listcruft. Unless the list is actually useful in some way, there's no reason to keep it. --Bachrach44 15:46, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Yet Another "List of adjective profession" list, of little value for navigation or instruction. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 23:17, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: non-encyclopedic, no definition of "academic" can fit, non-useful. Jtmichcock 02:16, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: listcruft of very low informational value. Pavel Vozenilek 22:09, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep --Sjharte 00:05, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unencyclopedic lisr.  Grue 
 * Delete, and don't move to List of Jewish gay, lesbian, or bisexual academics Pilatus 16:19, 11 December 2005 (UTC)


 * 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.