Deletion of List of fictional reptiles

Comment: I see the page as an aid to navigation, like so many other list articles (e.g. List of abstract algebra topics, List of magical weapons, List of speakers in Plato's dialogues). Even though required by our notability guidelines (see ) the "topic" of such lists is usually not notable in the way defined there. If there were reliable sources discussing, in some general sense, speakers in Plato's dialogues, then we should not have a standalone list but an article on Speakers in Plato's dialogues which then, after a lead and some sections presenting the viewpoints found in these reliable sources, might have a section listing such speakers. Personally I think that such pages should be judged on whether they are actually useful for navigation. I greatly regret the demise, for example, of the former List of flags by design, which I found extremely useful for identifying a flag I had spotted and did not recognize. In this specific case it is not immediately obvious that the purpose will not be equally served by appropriate categorization (see Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates and Wikipedia:Categories versus lists). &nbsp
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:LISTN)

Comment: as valid navigational index per , and as complementary to :Category:Fictional reptiles per . The claims are wholly without merit that the contents of this list are unverifiable, as the inclusion criteria is simply being 1) a fictional character, that is 2) a reptile or reptilian. Complaints about uncertain inclusion seem to rest upon the equivocation of fictional with legendary or mythical (a meaningful distinction we maintain elsewhere; "fictional" does not simply mean "does not exist", but rather "originating in fiction"), or the issue of how far down the notability scale inclusion should go, which is an ordinary editing determination commonly made for lists of this sort. Editors may decide this is only for characters that have their own articles, or that the list should be broader and include significant characters from works of fiction that have their own articles
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (WP:LISTPURP||WP:CLN)