Talk:Anthropologist

I find it difficult to see that, as you say, the "the profession of anthropology is an enclyclopedic topic". I can't imagine anything else than a list of anthropologists here, there rest should be contained in the anthropology article. Can you clarify? jheijmans, Thursday, July 18, 2002

What is there to clarify? An article on the profession itself would be interesting -- that would be where one would discuss the people behind the science who helped shape it into what it is. This leaves the main article free to discuss the science itslef. I'm not a big fan of the profession articles, but others are and I respect that (although I do often break off lists into "List of X" when those lists get too long). There are already a couple dozen (at least) of these articles and there is no reason to start removing them as separate articles. --maveric149

Well, I imagined this article to become a useless stub, though you have some point that it COULD be an article at some point. However, then weightlifter, atheist and Utahn could be articles as well, which I would not really support. But I'll leave it in the hope somebody will make a great article out of it. jheijmans

I just redirected this article to anthropology (instead of list of anthropologists). People who follow a link to "anthropologist" are much more likely to want to know what anthropology is than to be interested in wading through a list of names. GrahamN 02:40, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

very confused