Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of lead guitarists
First, because a category wouldn't include the bands in which these lead guitarists played, which makes this list already more informative than a category. Second, because it has the potential to be expanded and annotated, see, e.g. List of Electric blues musicians. Third, if this list gets to large to maintain it can be split by either country of origin or genre (blues, rock, heavy metal, etc.). Fourthly, this is not |listcruft as Lead guitar is an encyclopedic topic. See also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of guitarists and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of women bass guitarists for more arguments for keeping lists similar to this one. See also Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and series boxes which specifically says "''Wikipedia offers three ways to create groupings of articles: Wikipedia:Categorization|categories, Wikipedia:list|lists, and Wikipedia:Article series|article series boxes. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages, and each is appropriate in different circumstances. These methods should not be considered to be in competition with each other. Rather, they are most effective when used in synergy, each one complementing the other
— User:DHowell, 23:26, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:LISTCRUFT (Wikipedia:Listcruft)