Edited to add David said Re your statement When people are reading about Atheism they should have the option to review a list of prominent persons who are specifically identified as atheists No When people are reading about Atheism they should have the option to review a list of prominent persons who are atheists I think that bears repeating for emphasis While I obviously can t speak for everyone who might visit such a list it is certainly why I first came to it I m not sure what else one might expect to find on a list of atheists By all means Nick have a subcategory for self defined atheists Have a whole new page if you like Or retitle this one list of persons who are specifically identified as atheists and strip out the extraneous entries But a list of atheists should contain well atheists Your methodology would have I dunno maybe Alan Turing excluded from a gay and lesbian list for never having openly proclaimed his homosexuality Nope The thing to do as with that example is to see if they can be found guilty of the offence