Deletion of List of surnames in Russia

Comment: changed vote): I was reading this Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of French surnames|discussion {{u|Spiderone}} posted and the mention of "List of Jewish names" startled me. I actually can't believe it didn't occur to me immediately what various ''lists of names'' that usually to belong to a ''particular group'' have been used for historically. This may not have occured to others as well. '''I know this was absolutely not in anyway the intention with these Wikipedia lists''', but good intentions can be used by those with other than good intentions. This is enough for me to switch to Delete. I doubt there is a policy or guideline to directly support this reasoning, but per  I think Delete is the best way to improve the encyclopedia. &nbsp;&nbsp;//&nbsp
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Ignore all rules (WP:IGNORE)

Comment: per  being soundly met. Special:contributions/Serial Number 54129
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (WP:LISTPURPOSE)

Comment: per  items 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, and 11
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Listcruft (WP:LC)

Comment: per the analysis of Cunard (though I have admittedly not double checked all his sources and am taking it on good faith).  gives several reasons why lists can exist and Cunard does an excellent job of showing how several of those reasons suggest that this is an appropriate article. The idea that our content could be used for harm should not be dismissed but is not, in this case, a policy or guideline based reason to support deletion. Best
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:LISTN)

Comment: LISTN is clearly met, as would be the case with a list of names from any country. INDISCRIMINATE and NOTDIR are highly subjective and thus not really applicable when LISTN is met. Without there being annotations at the moment, this is quite redundant to the category but that's generally not a problem per 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates (WP:NOTDUPE)

Comment: Firstly, is it the list of the Russian surnames or of the surnames of Russia (only 80% of Russian population are ethnically Russian)? It looks like second, because, for example, Elmpt is certainly not ethnically Russian surname. But then it is very strange, because it does not include popular Tatar, Kazakh or Chechen surnames. In all, looks like 
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:No original research (WP:OR)

Comment: Fails INDISCRIMINATE, LISTN and NOTDIR, which rather trumps the  keep arguments above
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (WP:ITSUSEFUL)