Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Ashkenazi Jews
Better to keep these things at AFD than by overturning at DRV, as we've been doing lately.)  It is unquestionable that the ethnic group Ashkenazi Jews is a notable group.  Once that is established, the presumption is that the list of notable members of that group is of encyclopedia value, and should be broken out when it gets long, as is stated in Wikipedia:Listcruft.  The list would be in far better shape if two things were added to it, first a short indication of why each individual is notable and second, a citation to a reliable source indicating that the individual is an Ashkenazi Jew.  If no one is going to do these things, categorization might be the right end result - but getting there requires first asking people to expand appropriately.  Community consensus is that #DIR is intended to cover phonebook style entries, not that we can't have a list of notable members of a group; the nominator misrepresents what the policy says
— User:GRBerry, 03:03, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NOT (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)