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List is on its way out[edit]

I recommend the replacement of this list with the current Wikipedia:Category named "Anthropologists" and suggest this list be considered obsolete. I have converted many of the listed names to the Wiki Category Category:Anthropologists, which is getting rather too big.

You can improve the Wikipedia by replacing every last one of these entries in this list with the link [[Category:Anthropologists | last name here, first name and initials here ]] at the bottom of the page. When you do so, please comment out the name on this list.

For those that I have marked with the category, I have effectively removed them from this list by commenting out their names. When all have been converted to the Category:Anthropologists category is time to eliminte this page.

Tom Lougheed 19:28, 7 June 2006 (UTC) Tom Lougheed 23:31, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Any reason not to delete the page then?? Cander0000 (talk) 08:05, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

deleting Chomsky[edit]

Regarding deletion of Chomsky: I meant generative, not "structural" linguist (it's been bugging me that I wrote that in the edit summary).

Still, Noam Chomsky is not an anthropologist — at least I got that right! User:Birdmessenger 13 December 2004

George Lakoff also is not an anthropologist!

Mark Ritchie is not an anthropologist[edit]

Mark Andrew Ritchie wrote a book on the Yanomamo that argues for a Christian worldview (or so I gather from a quick Googling). The fact that he wrote about the Yanomamo does not make him an anthropologist. Unless Spicynugget can produce any evidence that Ritchie is an anthropologist, his name should be removed from this list.--Birdmessenger 20:26, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Agree, no verifiable reliable sources so far. If anyone knows of some please provide references! Please remember: verifiable and reliable sources. Weregerbil 08:0lfgdktireoryiptureoigjnfdksgn5, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Since the list is gradually being removed, you may find it more useful to ensure that the [[Category:Anthropologist]] stays off Ritchie's article, should it ever be written. Tom Lougheed 23:35, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete page?[edit]

If this article is really obselete, shouldn't it be deleted? 71.224.206.164 (talk) 09:56, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please note that categories do not supersede lists; per WP:CLN, the two can and do coexist quite regularly and comfortably. Also note that Category:Anthropologists is subdivided by nationality and "field of research", meaning that it isn't even functioning as a comprehensive list anyway — which is precisely why it doesn't serve as a replacement for this list. And incidentally, even if "obsoleting" a list just because a category happens to exist were the way things are generally done here, 71.* has it exactly right that the list would have to be deleted if that were the case; if a page is left to stand in articlespace, it is required to be an active article which has at least one active category on it. If you remain convinced that the list is unnecessary, you're within your right to take it to WP:AFD and try to have it deleted — but it does not, and will not, stay in place as uncategorized content that describes itself as obsolete. Bearcat (talk) 08:10, 30 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Notofication of obsolete status?[edit]

So, I just clicked edit and added a name to the list, before I noticed there's something weird about it. Is there any standard way to mark the page to prevent unsuspecting wiki-editors to add to the list? Now it says "This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it." ;) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arjan82 (talk • contribs) 00:28, 6 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]