Deletion of List of Hutus

Comment: First order lists of people by ancestry or ethnic group/affiliation are standard fare on Wikipedia.  That this list could be used as some sort of hit-list in an ethnic conflict certainly gives one pause, but as long as it follows , it won't include any information not available elsewhere.  Many more articles than this on Wikipedia can be used to ill end in some scenario, but we do not and should not censor them for that reason
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:V)

Comment: notable and verifiable ethnic group listing only notable individuals of that group.  That membership in this ethnic group (which many of our Wikipedia articles describe as "distinct") is a significant biographical fact about someone is underscored by the civil wars in Rwandan Civil War|Rwanda and Burundi Civil War|Burundi that were clearly divided among ethnic lines.  So whether we like it or not, being Hutu or Tutsi is an indelible fact of life for many individuals, of which they themselves may be proud, fearful, or neutral, but it clearly has impact and clearly means something for better or worse.  Whether we require self-identification for inclusion, at least among the living, is a matter for talk page discussion.  But there is no consensus-supported requirement that we should only list people by ethnicity who "are notable per their ethnicity", as illustrated by any number of recent AFDs and DRVs that have kept such lists, in fact lists that are even more tenuously related to the subjects than this because they document the descendants of immigrants by that heritage.  The standard across the board is instead that lists of people are not just limited to facts for which people are notable, but significant shared biographical facts, such as education, place of origin, or ethnicity.Prior to listing this at AFD, the nom http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Hutus&diff=416042800&oldid=416042745 blanked most of the entries on the list because they were unsourced.  I'm not going to quibble with the removal of the living entries, or the requirement that no living people be added to this list unless they are sourced at the time.  Many of these blanked entries were deceased, however, so there is not a compelling reason to remove them rather than tag them with {{fact}}, nor is there a -compelled reason to delete this list as a whole
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP)

Comment: The information found here is by definition available elsewhere. A suggestion: post the following atop the article: |''"The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth; that is, whether readers can check that material in Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source, not whether editors think it is true
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:VERIFY)