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List of current United States governors by religion

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Does not meet WP:GNG as a necessary article. It is just a copy of the list of current United States Governors re-organized by religion with no references. There is no list of current United States Senators by religion so I don't see how this article is necessary. Aaaccc (talk), 15 March 2011 (UTC)

• Weak keep - I understand the concern about these sorts of lists. We certainly don't want a proliferation of lists made simply on the basis of some arbitrary criteria. I worry about how frequent such a list would be updated, if it'd be kept accurate with others, and just the general use of time spent on maintenance of hundreds of nearly identical lists. One simple list that's sortable is much easier to manage, keep upto date, and read. Note too that this article's an orphan, which only highlights why concise, encompassing lists are ideal. All of that said... this list is well put together and the topic is certainly one that's discussed--it's not OR. I would prefer some consolidation of personal characteristics of governors, etc., but absent that, this list makes the cut. I do think we should be careful about how wildly we let this kind of list-criteria grow, for the above reasons. Shadowjams (talk) 20:22, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
• Delete religion is not a sufficiently notable feature of Governorship for it to merit a separate article. MLA (talk) 22:26, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
• Delete - a textbook case of unencyclopedic cross-categorization WP:NOTDIR.--70.80.234.196 (talk) 23:20, 15 March 2011 (UTC)