Deletion of List of White Male Authors with Critically Acclaimed Novels Over 500 Pages

Comment: per nom and for (a) being too arbitrarily specific (why 500?) and thus failing  and (b) having vague criteria ("critically acclaimed" and "contemporary
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists (WP:SALAT)

Comment: per WP:POINT, WP:LIST, WP:SYNTH, and . This has to be the ultimate synthetic list
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Snowball clause (WP:SNOW)

Comment: having read the above, both deleters and supporters of this article have given examples of other lists, confusing the issue with the |What about X argument.  But does this article meet ? ie. "a list topic is considered notable if it has been discussed as a group or set by independent reliable sources", has it?  Also, no. 6 of  - "Non-encyclopedic cross-categorizations, such as "people from ethnic / cultural / religious group X employed by organization Y" or "restaurants specializing in food type X in city Y". Cross-categories like these are not considered sufficient basis to create an article, unless the intersection of those categories is in some way a culturally significant phenomenon." is it
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (WP:WHATABOUTX||WP:NLIST||WP:NOTDIR)