Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of American Catholics (2nd nomination)

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The result was delete. Sandstein 10:07, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

List of American Catholics

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Delete: as per same criteria as Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Catholic Actresses and Actors, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Catholic Criminals, and List of Catholic American Actors, etc. List is a subjective measure of importance and devotion. Also, term "American Catholics" is inaccurate, proper term is "American Roman Catholics", other wording suggests some sort of schism (i.e. Old Catholics, Greek Catholics, Anglo-Catholics, Traditional Catholics). Quis separabit? 07:29, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

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• Delete -- if comprehensive any such list would be so long as to be completely useless. Peterkingiron (talk) 14:51, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
• Delete. As indiscriminate as you can get with a list of people. Nominator explains it quite well. 19:43, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
• Delete: apart from the fact that it should probably be renamed List of US Roman Catholics, the page Catholic Church in the United States claims that there are over 70 million members, so the list is going to be either ridiculously incomplete or totally unwieldy. ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 20:09, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
• Keep Not really seeing anything that has changed since the last deletion discussion, and the nomination is putting forth a dubious argument of "subjective measure". "List of Catholic actors" is a cross-categorization of religion and profession, but this is of nationality and religion, which are not at all subjective or indiscriminate, particularly as Catholicism is the largest denomination in the United States. The arguments that the list will becomes "unmanageable" or "unwieldy" are without merit, as only notable people would ever be listed in a Wikipedia article. ValarianB (talk) 20:13, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
• Delete about a quarter of the US population is Catholic. This is a group so large that creating a list of them is just not doable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 06:59, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
• Delete Not sure how it is going to help encyclopedia, list are meant to be informative and not directory. Raymond3023 (talk) 17:55, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

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