Deletion of List of people influenced by Ayn Rand

Comment: A completely arbitrary list. "People"? Come on, what's next? List of people influenced by Jesus or List of people influenced by Muhammad? The editors probably have to create a prose article detailing how he inspired people, instead of this trivial list of names (). Anyway, Works inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien is a prose article
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Listcruft (WP:LISTCRUFT)

Comment: per {{U|Bluesatellite}} and . Come on, this is |run of the mill. We don't even have  a List of people influenced by Bertrand Russell
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:SOAP||WP:MILL)

Comment: unless there is a better argument for deletion. This list meets all the  criteria. There are sources that discuss the topic of the list; several are in the Works Cited section of the article's references. It is not at all indiscriminate: the inclusion criteria are explicitly defined at the top of the list and every entry is sourced in support of one or more of those criteria. It also ought to be obvious that stuffing a 34Kb list into a biographical article (that is already over 90Kb) is a bad idea
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists (WP:LISTPEOPLE)

Comment: The list attempts to put forth criteria for inclusion, which is generally a good thing, but here it ends up being |synthesis. Three different things are being called "influence"; the list is essentially putting forth a conclusion that they are equivalent
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:No original research (WP:SYNTH)