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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 17:02, 28 May 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

List of Jewish astronauts[edit]

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Trivial ethnicity and occupation intersection, no reliable independent source whatsoever provided to support encyclopedic context about this (individual sources about individual members are not appropriate for a wider list, per WP:NLIST). What there is to be said about the topic is probably already included (or could be without any difficulty) at Religion in space#Judaism. Fails WP:NOTDIRECTORY. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 13:33, 21 May 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 13:36, 21 May 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Judaism and Science. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 13:54, 21 May 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Delete Man, we seem to have a lot of these arbitrary cross-categorizations. What's next, List of Catholic Astronauts? List of Vegetarian Nobel Laureats? --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 15:55, 21 May 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Delete If you took 100 things a person could be (Jewish and went to outer space in this example) and intersected each one with each other one you would have 10,000 possible lists, but no new information. A more knowledgeable person could also mention that there is no one absolute definition of what it is to be Jewish, or if a passenger on a space ship is really an astronaut. PopSci (talk) 17:52, 21 May 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  It was cool to learn that William Shatner is Jewish.PopSci (talk) 18:02, 21 May 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  I wonder if Mr Shatner's flight was the inspiration for this list.PopSci (talk) 16:59, 22 May 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Delete There would be 4,950 categoriations (100*99/2), but I agree that this is the list equivalent of WP:OCEGRS. These people have nothing in common apart from being Jewish astronauts, and the subject fails WP:LISTN. It is also unclear if Jews is to refer to a religion or an ethnic group, as these are not the same. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 23:32, 21 May 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  Thanks. You are right. You could not have a List of Jewish Jews.PopSci (talk) 16:46, 22 May 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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