Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of manga artists
but limit to manga artists with articles. As I told the nominator on his talk page, other lists with an equally broad scope are maintained (for instance, List of science fiction authors).  As his whole arguement for deletion is that the list is too large to be maintainable, and that can't be true because people successfully maintain other lists with equally broad scope, I see no reason for deletion.  I don't see this as an  arguement, because I'm not argueing that the list should be kept merely because other stuff exists, but that the high quality in some of those other lists shows that a high quality could be maintained in this list.  Furthermore, there are a whole class of articles on Wikipedia that are alphabetical indexes, many with very broad subjects (all the articles linked from Portal:Contents/Index and many other articles tagged as being in the scope of Wikipedia:WikiProject Index).  While I don't know if indexes in general have support on Wikipedia, I feel that it is inappropriate to discuss one index on a clearly notable subject by itself.  Either it is appropriate to have an alphabetical index article for a notable topic or it isn't, and that should be discussed in a location that will get more participation than this AfD
— User:Calathan, 14:05, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:OTHERSTUFF (Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions)