Deletion of List of Asian Americans

Comment: Precedent is irrelevant, but the closing admin could do exactly what the closing admin did in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of German Americans &mdash; look at arguments that tied in with Wikipedia policy and discount the keep arguments that did not. (See Wikipedia:Deletion guidelines for administrators#Rough consensus for how that's done.) The last item in #DIR was the crucial element in the closing admin's reasoning. IMHO, if editors who want to keep this list can provide good counter-arguments that (1) tie in with some Wikipedia policy and guidelines, or maybe at least (2) tie in with overriding, important Wikipedia encyclopedic goals, then it would save this article. Or perhaps an argument can be made that #DIR just doesn't apply. If none of that is done, this article is probably a goner. I'm neutral, but here's what I'm curious about, and answers to these might be good arguments: What is the '''''encyclopedic''''' use for this list? Is it a useful illustration of some other Wikipedia article(s)? Should it be broken up into Chinese-American/Indian-American/Japanese-American lists if those don't already exist
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT)