Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people on the autistic spectrum


 * 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 was  k eep. - Mailer Diablo 05:06, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

List of people on the autistic spectrum

 * – (View AfD) (View log)

Procedural nomination. Article was previously nominated in a group, but consensus was to break the group apart and list individually. See Articles for deletion/List of horror film killers (2nd nomination). Abstain. &#9679;DanMS • Talk 06:07, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep The list has 55 references. By sticking to people who have been diagnosed as shown by referenced sources, the list satisfies WP:A. The normal editing process can address any WP:BLP issues with respect to non-notable private individuals whom someone might add to the list, while allowing the appropriate listing of notable autistic persons such as Temple Grandin. (It seems bizarre that anyone would group nominate these along with lists of "horror film killers")Edison 19:16, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. While I'd generally vote to convert unsourced lists to categories, this list is fully sourced and additions without citation are speedily removed, sufficient reason to keep it in this form. Cheers, Ian Rose 23:39, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. List complies with sourcing requirements. David McNamara 08:49, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep clearly defined list on a defining quality. Doczilla 12:35, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I call Speedy Keep but recommend a re-formatting to follow the example of FA List of HIV-positive people. Canuckle 21:41, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep Asperger's Syndrome is a wonderful gift, and I guess this deletion nomination may have been established as a result of conspiracy by fascist lesbian feminists who misandristly discriminate against Asperger's Syndrome on the basis that it has been theorised as being the result of an "extreme male brain". Yes we definitely need to keep the article, and also write in the article some famous people speculated to have Asperger's, like Steven Spielberg and Bill Gates, who were mentioned in one of the article's hidden HTML-comments as having not been formally diagnosed.


 * 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.