Deletion of Bibliography of South America

Comment: per ; far too broad for a manageable list
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:IINFO)

Comment: Incredibly vague, arbitrary, and useless. This is an  list of unrelated books somehow tied to a massive topic about which (and its subtopics) tens of thousands of books have been written. There's "Soccer in sun and shadow" (yeah they do play soccer in South America), "Traveling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary" (better known for time in Cuba, but he was killed in Bolivia), "The road to Gobblers Knob: From Chile to Alaska on a motorbike" (yes you can travel in the continent), and "The last monarch butterfly: conserving the monarch butterfly in a brave new world" (South America is in fact one of the five continents it lives on). From modern travel guides and memoirists' travelogues to histories of specific countries and biographies, to books that are about all of Latin America or the Western Hemisphere, there is no rhyme or reason to this list, and there are no inclusion criteria that can reasonably define its contents. Moreover, it serves no purpose to the reader. Pages like History of South America, Geography of South America, Economy of South America, and the articles on respective countries at Outline of South America or other ''specific'' topics are best suited to provide relevant information and resources. urther reading sections are good, but it serves no encyclopedic purpose to lump together indiscriminate, disparate sources rather than organizing in relevant pages like Amazon rainforest#Further reading, Inca Empire#References, or History of Colombia#Further reading
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:INDISCRIMINATE||WP:F)

Comment: The topic clearly passes  – a list of similar bibliographies follows.  These demonstrate that the topic is quite manageable.  We have bibliographies for other large regions such as the Bibliography of the Soviet Union|Soviet Union and :Category:Bibliographies of the United States and territories|United States.  To exclude a major region of the global south would be arbitrary and outrageous systemic bias – note that there are no separate blibliography pages for subdivisions such as Brazil.  The topic is limited to sources in English which is sensible as it limits the scope to the works which our English language readers will be wanting.  If the page should grow too large then we just split it per .  Deleting the page when we already have a reasonable start on the topic would be defeatist, disruptive and contrary to policies such as ,  and 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:LISTN||WP:SPLIT||WP:ATD||WP:NOTPAPER||WP:PRESERVE)

Comment: I agree that this meets , which is the primary criterion on which it should be judged. The argument that the topic is too broad isn't convincing: we have lots of articles on vast topics (life, history, outer space, etc.) that we keep to a manageable size using summary style and editorial discretion. There's no reason the same principles can't be applied to a bibliography: if this grows to an unreasonable length (which I'll note hasn't happened yet in the more than a decade since it was created) or if there's a consensus it's  in its current form, we could split off sections by geographical or historical divisions or by field, and/or we could apply any number of criteria to limit the list's scope. There's probably a need for a broader discussion of how we approach bibliographies, especially topical ones rather than ones for authors – are they intended to be comprehensive; if so are they indiscriminate, and if not how do we decide what to include and what to leave out (does anyone else think there should be a separate Wikimedia project for bibliographies?) – but there certainly seems to be a consensus that we ought to ''have'' them, and in this case |resolving whatever problems this one may have is preferable to deletion. &ndash;&nbsp
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:LISTN||WP:INDISCRIMINATE||WP:NOTCLEANUP)