Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/University of San Francisco alumni
I generally look with disfavor on |list articles such as this, believing that the items therein found are properly comprised by a |category (here, for instance, :Category:University of San Francisco alumni) and that those for whom biographical entries cannot reasonably be expected to exist ought not to merit inclusion in an enumeration of alumni (such that the preferring of a category to a list should not result in the loss of any encyclopedic content), but it seems well settled that lists such as this are properly in mainspace (toward which, see, e.g., the existence of :Category:Alumni by university in the United States, which includes better than 200 articles of identical form); if a consensus ought to develop to the contrary, the discussion relative to such issue ought not to take place at a singular/isolated AfD
— User:Jahiegel, 04:48, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:LIST||WP:CATEGORY (Wikipedia:Lists)