Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/African american men in computer science
My reading of  is that notability applies to the list as a whole, not the individual entries.  So the notability, or lack thereof, of any of these people on either list is not relevant; which negates many of the deletion arguments made here.  I can't see how BLP applies to a simple list of names; they aren't biographies and contain no potentially libelous information.  The topic is one that has plausibly been discussed as a group in reliable sources.  Whatever technical flaws that remain with the lists are fixable over time: the lists |have potential.  Further, the nominator states "An argument could be made for an article to generally discuss the underrepresentation of African-Americans in the Computer Sciences Industries".  While this isn't the end of that process, it is a part of that and a list often serves as the backbone for creating relevant articles around a topic.  Some of these names may lead to future biographical articles (not, I repeat, that that is necessary under Wikipedia policy).  I would say that extends the "has potential" argument from just the two lists under discussion to the entire topic group that may, potentially, exist one day
— User:AdamBMorgan, 16:50, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:LISTN||WP:HASPOT (Wikipedia:Notability)