Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of fictional Romans
at least for now, but discuss serious cleanup and pruning concerns.  I don't understand at all the claim that this is an "unencyclopedic cross-categorization"; those are just words&mdash;naked assertion of opinion&mdash;until someone substantively explains why the very concept of the list is somehow invalid.  I see nothing in any of the acronyms invoked (, , ) that would compel or counsel the deletion of this list.  The topic seems straightforward and simple enough, and there certainly is no shortage of notable examples.  So the only real concern I can identify here is a meaningful threshold for what fictional Romans should be included.  The list at present includes, for example, unseen "characters" from ''Monty Python's Life of Brian'' who exist only for the purpose of joke names.  There's also an issue of how to deal with ''fictionalized'' characters, where perhaps nothing more than a name or basic historical role is kept but the rest is pure invention (cf. Titus Pullo & Lucius Vorenus in the HBO ''Rome'' TV series).  Maybe the only practical way to organize this content is indirectly, through Fiction set in the Roman empire, if this list cannot exist without blowing up to every name mentioned in any work of fiction set in Ancient Rome.  But I'd like to see that discussion before coming to that conclusion rather than just a diarrhea of acronyms
— User:Postdlf, 15:53, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:SALAT||WP:NOTDIR||WP:IINFO (Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists)