Wikipedia:List guidelines reborn

Below is a proposed guideline for inclusion of lists in Wikipedia. We feel that WP:LIST is unsatisfactory, and overly vague, and thus many well-meaning editors are involved in furious disputes in AfD.

So many of these non-notable lists are floating around AfD, and it is this essay's intention to formulate a guideline that we can use to more clearly and fairly define which lists are appropriate for inclusion on our encyclopedia. The proposal is relatively simple and aims to definitively answer questions regarding lists: The list must pass all of the following criteria
 * Please note that the citations offer explanations of the guidelines

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The criteria
-- Clear and delineated guidelines are necessary for lists, especially considering how bad the situation is becoming in AfD. We realize that lists follow the same guidelines as other articles, but it can be difficult to apply those guidelines in such a fundamentally different context.
 * 1) The subject of the list must be worthy of an article,. or obviously and self-evidently related to another subject that deserves an article. This includes any subject that has or could be merged into a larger article, and, if it were long enough, could have its own article.
 * 2) 'The list must be sufficiently maintainable and not unmanagably vast'
 * 3) The list is not able to be merged with another, either because of the distinction of its subject or the illogicality of the merger.
 * 4) The list must have a reasonable plausability of usefulness.
 * 5) The list must not be containable in a category, either because of the number of red links that could be articles, the organization of entries not being alphabetical, or because of explanation needed beside each entry.
 * 6) Lists may not center around a subject that contains necessarily controversial value judgments.