Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Christian scientists

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 Jtkiefer^{T | C | @} ---- 00:27, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] List of Christian scientists

This is nominated for deletion for the same reasons as the List of Catholic scientists. The faith of the people listed here is incidental; it had no bearing on their profession as scientists. Pilatus 18:42, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. As per Pilatus -- unless as noted elsewhere a strong case can be made for the religion having a bearing on their career. Not to mention this is such a broad category it could have thousands of names potentially. 23skidoo 19:05, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete I think a list of scientists who were ordained and/or have been outspoken (or have written) about their faith - or have been involved in religious-scientific controversy would be useful. (They would have to be notable both as scientists and as Christians - not just as one.) But this list is pointless - bound to be POV - probably inexaustible (prior to modern times, nearly all western scientists would be at least nominaly Christian). --Doc ^ask? 19:13, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per Dpbsmith's argument in List of Catholic scientists and per the nomination. Fallsend 19:17, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
  • • Per User:Durova I would prefer a List of avowed Christians in science, to contain such people as Michael Behe, the creationist, Donald Knuth, who wrote 3:16, and Michael Faraday, who religiously attended Church. Pilatus 22:38, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
      • Okay I do realize when I'm beat. I'm moving the information to List of avowed Christians in science, per request and removing my pro-vote. I'll also work on merging the Jesuit one with this one and removing the Quaker names to the Quaker one.--T. Anthony 00:32, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, but perhaps we could have a category for "avowed" Christian scientists? (i.e., scientists who made a big deal about their faith?) Sdedeo 19:54, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. per WP:NOT. Durova 21:21, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nomination. As to the question of whether it would be a good idea to highlight that a famous person has been enthusiatic about his or her faith, that is a valid exposition -- in the article about the person who is being discussed. Jtmichcock 23:29, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Seriously, what genius came up with this one? 65.9.143.76 23:42, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Can we next have a list of scientists who can ride unicycles? --StoatBringer 23:43, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nom, but I would support the list of scientists whose faith is prominent that has been proposed above. In the event that this list is kept, I would suggest it be renamed: "Christian scientist" is a bad term to use in any situation, since it is so easily confused with "Christian Scientist". — Haeleth Talk 23:52, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Listcruft: there is no inherent connection between "Christian" and "scientist". --Carnildo 00:35, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per List of Scientists Who Can Ride Unicycles and WP:NOT. Nandesuka 14:20, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep — I don't believe that deleting articles to meet a personal agenda is not a valid AfD criteria. Lists of accomplished members of particular ethnicities or beliefs is a valid topic. If the page selection criteria needs tightening down, then move to an appropriate page name. — RJH 16:38, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete there is a religion Christian Scientist, so could cause confusion. JBH 22:39, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Doesn't that argue more for rename. Like maybe "List of Christians in Science" and then add a note that names should be limited to those who went to Christian universities to study science or where Christianity is otherwise important to their careers.--T. Anthony 00:35, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, highlighting people with an arbitrary combination of attributes does not make a useful list. Possibly also delete Category:Christian_scientists (which makes this list redundant in any case even if either was worth keeping.) --Aquillion 19:42, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Unless they're priests who converted to the life of science - DELETE! 65.10.44.158 22:51, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

On second thought, I have a better idea.--T. Anthony 00:32, 21 November 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.