Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of HIV-positive people
per . It says that lists of people require that "the person's membership in the list's group is notable in some way (in other words, a person should not be included in a list merely because they happen to be a member of the list's group)." Nearly all entries on this list violate this guideline, because they are about otherwise notable people who happen to have (had) AIDS. Suffering or dying from AIDS is unfortunately so relatively common that the list of people who are (mainly) notable ''for having AIDS'' is probably very short, and can (if it is at all necessary) be integrated into the main AIDS article or a subarticle thereof. In addition, the following caution in , part of the policy , must be borne in mind: "Caution should be used with categories that suggest a person has a poor reputation ... These principles apply equally to ... lists". This caution applies here because in many parts of the world having AIDS is still a severe stigma and/or is widely associated with sexual practices that are considered objectionable (see the list's introduction and AIDS#Stigma). Our BLP policy therefore provides another good reason not to have a list article about this topic unless it is absolutely required for encyclopedic completeness. Our |notability rules are an appropriate yardstick for answering whether this is the case. While AIDS itself is obviously notable, the topic "List of HIV-positive people" does not seem to be – I don't see references to reliable sources dedicated to this specific topic –, and so Wikipedia can do without it
— User:Sandstein, 00:17, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:LISTPEOPLE||WP:BLPCAT||WP:BLP||WP:N (Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists)