Deletion of List of Contemporary Writers of the American West

Comment: That's not a valid reason for deletion. If you don't know what to do with it, you don't have to do anything, but hypothetically someone could improve it by adding references, dates, representative novels, geographical areas, etc.  says lists and categories aren't exclusive. If you feel that strongly that this should be a category, create it yourself, don't expect somebody else to do the work. Without having references right now, I strongly suspect that contemporary western fiction is a subject that receives study in academic journals and books, and the nomination doesn't seem to question this. The only negative would be whether this would be better merged into a list of all western-themed literature from Fenimore Cooper and Karl May to the present day
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates (WP:CLN)

Comment: It's basically a  of List of Western fiction authors. That article should be developed first. It's in bad shape. If we want a "Contemporary" category, create a sortable list with a column for date active. The best way to slice and dice along categories is create sortable lists with columns, it's possible to get a ton of information into a single table without needing to fork off redundant lists that get out of sync
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Content forking (WP:CFORK)