Deletion of List of Muslim writers and poets

Comment: This is a mess. After the obvious canvassing of delete voters, the nominator has now altered the nomination. This nomination should be withdrawn . A new AfD should be opened so that we can start fresh without these serious violations of process
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Speedy keep (WP:SKCRIT)

Comment: Lists of Muslim scientists and scholars per nom. If we stop assuming that every Arab and Iranian is a Muslim, then the page ceases to have a purpose (since it would only contain List of Muslim scientists). Delete List_of_Muslim_painters as unuseful; its just an unreferenced list of names. If someone wants to categorize painters that way, just start :Category:Muslim_painters. The others are likely to become so large that they're no longer useful some day. But they look fine for now, and "Looks fine. Maybe useful" are basically the criteria in 
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists (WP:SALAT)

Comment: per  as too broad. Also, religion is generally irrelevant with respect to these fields, on a par with (or even slightly below) List of left-handed painters or List of blond poets
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists (WP:SALAT)

Comment: based on the above comments, I've withdrawn few nominations, they are: List of Muslim geographers, List of Muslim scientists, and List of Muslim astronomers. I think they were useful if we limit them to the medieval Islamic world, so I went ahead and removed recent biographies from them. Other lists are clearly  and are obvious deletes
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Listcruft (WP:LISTCRUFT)