Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of social psychologists


 * 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   keep. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 08:18, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

List of social psychologists
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This page's content reflects a directory rather than appropriate encyclopaedic content (I have posted an elaborated rationale on the discussion page of the article) U3964057 (talk) 07:27, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep It is true that this is not an encyclopedia article. However WP has many lists. I don't see any problem with this one that it should be deleted.  All of the people on it have articles, so are considered notable. Kitfoxxe (talk) 12:26, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep. Valid list of existing articles, per WP:LIST.  There are a few redlinks that need articles, sources, or deletion, but this is not grounds for deletion.   --Arxiloxos (talk) 14:22, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Weak keep Better than the average list created back in Wikipedia's early days, in that it does have some discriminating information about some of the individual entries, which is a step in the right direction. More of the same and some sourcing would be a good next step.  Since we have (and have had for a long time) Category:Social psychologists, then under WP:CLN, a list of Wikipedia articles about social psychologists is perfectly acceptable.  This one has the potential of doing things that a category cannot, such as providing information at a glance.  Mandsford 16:41, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Social science-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:42, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:42, 22 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Comment - Indiscriminate inclusion criteria: what is a "social psychologist" defined here and who regards what as their major contributions to the field? That said, these sort of lists are an invaluable source of in-links for articles which might otherwise be orphans and my own inclination is to look the other way on this "bad" list. Carrite (talk) 16:56, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep - This page should not become an outlet for a bunch of red links, but as it exists, it provide a valuable list of social psychologists who have the notability to warrant a page. It is no different than the numerous other lists that are linked to on the List of psychologists page. Whether or not a person has made major contributions to the field is an issue to be debated by editors of that person's page - once the page exists, it should be included here if the person is a social psychologist. Osubuckeyeguy (talk) 20:32, 22 March 2011 (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.