Wikipedia:Irrelevant Intersections for Lists
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Irrelevant Intersections for Lists or IIFL is the WP:OCAT's Non-notable intersections by ethnicity, religion, or sexual preference applied to lists, with the further addition of race and political stance. Lists like the following should have general backing for the relationship purported in the title, or else they may face deletion.
Intersection Must Meet Notability
[edit]The question of what relevance, if any, the relationship has cannot be answered by original research (such as suggesting a lack of, or over-representation of, some group in some occupation/area). There must be at least one (though, if it is not a neologism, there should be more than one) article, book, or documentary specifically addressing the issue of a connection between the intersectees and showing how that relationship is manifested, for it to have some notability as an intersection. The existence of the intersection outside of Wikipedia is not proof enough that it is a notable intersection.
Examples of lists whose intersection was not deemed notable: List of Hindu sportspeople, List of Catholic businesspersons, List of Libertarian celebrities, List of Jewish publishers
Exceptional Endeavors
[edit]In addition to the intersection itself meeting notability, race intersection topics additionally require that the race be intersected with an exceptional endeavor topic (Medal of Honor recipients, Academy Award winners, billionaires, inventors, or abolitionists) rather than a typical endeavor or status topic (sports, entertainers such as rock musicians and reality television participants, videogame characters, French).
Examples:
- Delete examples – For some XfD deleted/merged articles, see List of black rock musicians (deleted); Black-Africans in Australia (deleted); Black gay (deleted); Black people (ethnicity) (deleted); Black owned (speedy deleted); Black reality television participants (deleted); Black religious cults (deleted); Dead black males (deleted); List of black characters in videogames (deleted); List of French Black people (deleted); The Explosion of Latino Players in MLB (deleted); List of African athlete (deleted); List of Jewish African-American entertainers (merged); List of African-American NFL quarterbacks; List of African-American quarterbacks (delete); African-Americans in China (delete); African American Drug Kingpins of New York City (delete)
- Keep examples – For some existing articles and XfD keep articles, see List of African American Medal of Honor recipients (former featured list); List of Black Academy Award winners and nominees (keep); Black billionaires (AfD) (keep on 12 September 2006); Black people (speedy keep); Latino Muslims (keep); List of African-American abolitionists (keep); List of African-American writers (keep); African-Americans in the United States military before desegregation (keep)