Deletion of List of suicides in fiction (3rd nomination)

Comment: Potentially useful information for someone researching this topic. The article needing cleanup is not a |reason for deletion
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (WP:BEFORE)

Comment: fails  and . My opinion on this still hasn't changed. It might be possible to write a good article about suicide in fiction, but it's impossible to create a comprehensive and discriminate list. In the alternative, I'd support a rename to "suicide in fiction"... but you'd basically have to start over with less emphasis on trivia and more emphasis on the concept as a whole
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:IINFO||WP:NOTDIR)

Comment: This is a proper topic for a |stand-alone list. The nominator ought to remember that AfD is not a forum for cleanup
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists (WP:SAL)

Comment: per above.  It's not indiscriminate, and I can't figure out what which of the 7 examples in  it would conceivably fall under.  To an extent, any list, category, table or template is a "directory".  "Unclear and unclean" is an argument I hadn't read before on AfD, and a welcome break from the cliches that abound here.  However, the obvious solution to that problem is "clear it up" and "clean it up
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTDIR)