Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of White Male Authors with Critically Acclaimed Novels Over 500 Pages
No evidence of , i.e. that "White Male Authors with Critically Acclaimed Novels Over 500 Pages" is a group or set that is notable (or even defined), saying nothing about the notability of each author and their books. There are several forms of arbitrary selection criteria: race, gender, genre, page count, and the unclear criterion of "Critically Acclaimed" (just how many critics must acclaim a book for its inclusion? How many and which awards must it win?) I believe this is an example of  Wikipedia:Listcruft|Listcruft, a list for the sake of making a list. But |Wikipedia articles are not directories of loosely related topics. Why not novels over 400 pages? None of the sources in the introductory paragraphs mention an arbitrary cut off of 500 pages (or any from what I can tell), some touch on books ''about'' women rather than by men (or women), and while the subject of sexual inequality in publishing is a noteworthy, this is not the way to address it. Is the reader supposed to compare this list to some similar list of white female authors whose books have equal or greater page lengths? Women authors in general? Altogether this seems like raw data assembled to support a point of view, but not appropriate as a list in an encyclopedia
— User:Animalparty, 00:04, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:LISTN||WP:NOTDIRECTORY (Wikipedia:Notability)