Intersection of Profession Religion and Gender on Wikipedia   Hi BHG Im posting this to you because I noticed you participated in an old series of CfD discussions and are familiar with it  In the process of reviewing the situation involving the various articles on Islamic scholarship Islamic mathematics Islamic science Islamic metaphysics etc  which have been subject to extensive editwarring and outright deletion or stubbing in the case of some articles by two groups of editors broadly labeled Islamophiles and antiRevisionists  a third group of people who might be termed Irrelevantists as they were unfamiliar with the subject and considered it nonnotable due to religious content which the antirevisionist history buffs do not they merely are vehemently against anything in the article that smacked of promotion referred folks to the old discussions that led to the deletion of the Professionals by religion Category eg CfDAstronomers by religion and CfDMathematicians by religion  The vast consensus of those two discussions were that religion was utterly irrelevant to the personal or professional life of those professionals and even asked when would it end Much cracks were had about how religion was once relevant to scientists lives but is now a historical curiosity However the discussion boiled down to it being a nonintersecting and frankly absurd means of categorizing people  What I find interesting is that the same policies could be provided for CategoryWomen by occupation and yet no one has ever proposed deletion of that entire huge category tree and in fact insisted on the exact opposite arguments despite the fact that some women actively do object to being labeled as a Woman scientist whereas no astronomer has ever objected to being labeled religious despite the disingenuous claim made in the above CfD   Caveat The only deletion ever proposed for the gender categories that I can see is that Women is nongrammatical which I disagree with  it sounds better than Female and is commonly used even in cases where it is a neologism such as women earth scientists  grammatical but ridiculous  the latter is a prime case of what Im talking about If it had been Muslim earth scientists or another religion it would have been deleted with extreme prejudice and some vitriol by science vs religion types But the rationale used would have been that it was nonintersecting and an article couldnt be written about it which seems to be being selectively applied by Brightists on this site Some of these categories an article could be written but that doesnt mean a category should exist as one person on the Female CfD noted Especially since the womeninscience movement is very divided about whether women professionals should be categorized as such   Full disclosure a close family member is both a woman scientist and the past president of a graduate women in science professional organization so no bias here