Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of occupations of secret identity personas of fictional characters
nearly all superhero characters created over the 75 year history of the genre have secret identities. I see no meaningful threshold for inclusion here that would prevent this from sliding into listing ''nearly every'' superhero character (and keep in mind that even when subdivided by publishing company, we still have to subdivide further by letter because there are so many), and even limiting to notable ones (i.e., those with standalone articles) would be ridiculously long and just duplicate other lists organized by the ways we expect them to (by company, by fictional team, by power, etc.). Another concern is that grouping them by occupation or "role" may violate , because it is making comparisons between characters that reliable sources have not necessarily made and that may or may not be meaningful, but instead purely coincidental and superficial at best. Sometimes writers actually did some research into what went into depicting a job, sometimes not. Sometimes it had a significant impact on the character's narrative, sometimes not. Note also that not all superheroes who have "civilian" lives depicted (careers apart from crimefighting) have ''secret'' identities, yet the creator of this list has equivocated the two distinct concepts (e.g., She-Hulk has a civilian life as a lawyer but her "real" identity of Jennifer Walters is not secret). It is probably possible to write a prose article on the ''topic'' of superhero secret or civilian identities, or the depiction of various occupations in comics, if sources can be found analyzing and commenting on that, with examples given where sources point to them as examples, but an unbounded list such as this can't work
— User:Postdlf, 15:46, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:SYNTH (Wikipedia:No original research)