Deletion of List of fictional actors (2nd nomination)

Comment: As far as I understand a list is justified on Wikipedia either as a sensible grouping of topics that are treated somewhere on Wikipedia (or have secondary sources), or because the topic, in this case fictional actors, itself is notable. I feel the nomination does not make clear on both points why this should not be the case here. I think, especially as this is a second nomination, that |"I feel it isn't encyclopedic" does not carry any weight as long as it is not supported by more arguments. Sure, this list can be improved, it's possible it needs triming, but I do not think that it is unmanageable. And "needs improvement" |is not a reason for deletion
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (WP:UNENCYCLOPEDIC||WP:ATD)

Comment: This fD reminds me quite a bit of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eco-terrorism in fiction, where the outcome was converting a list article that looked like Special:PermaLink/979987651|this into a prose article that looked like Special:PermaLink/991740265|this. Listing every time concept X appears in a work of fiction is something TV Tropes does; we should strive to write something ''about'' concept X in fiction, not just enumerate examples. This applies outside of fiction too, of course—it is the difference between writing the article Climate of London and creating the article list of rainy days in London. For a prose article like that, we want eliable sources with in-depth discussion of fictional actors ''as a group''. My  search turned up surprisingly few such sources, but it did at least lead me to this source: {{Cite journal|last=Esslin|first=Martin|date=1987|title=Actors Acting Actors|url=http://muse.jhu.edu/content/crossref/journals/modern_drama/v030/30.1.esslin.html|journal=Modern Drama|language=en|volume=30|issue=1|pages=72–79|doi=10.1353/mdr.1987.0044|issn=1712-5286}} I would be in favour of converting this list article to a prose article as was done with Eco-terrorism in fiction, although unlike in that case it we would obviously need to change the title as well here to not be called "list of
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Attribution (WP:A||WP:R||WP:BEFORE)