Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of syndicated columnists
there is no reason this information can't exist as both a list and as a category, per , so feel free to make that category in addition to this.  That a list is incomplete is irrelevant, as everything on Wikipedia is just a work in progress, and lists of people by occupation are not supposed to list every person that exists who has that job, but only those who merit articles; they are indexes of Wikipedia topics.  The list can be annotated and made sortable by plenty more information than the bare ABC that a category can handle: by birth/death dates and/or dates active, the number of papers/media outlets in which they are syndicated (if that number is meaningfully verifiable in some way, maybe as a high number if it varies throughout their career), the geographic range of their syndication (regional, national, worldwide?), their country of origin, their print syndicate...  And I see it has two redlinks, which may or may not be for columnists who actually merit articles in this case, but at any rate redlinks identifying missing topics is supposed to be one of the functions of lists.  Develop it, don't delete it
— User:Postdlf, 03:37, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:CLN (Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates)