`  ==Inclusion criteria is inappropriate== I'm writing this as an outsider that's worked on many problematic lists.  I've not gone through the talk page archives, and only skimmed this page and the AfDs...  In the BLPN request I wrote, ``I'm not seeing a clear BLP violation, so keeping my comments short. There are certainly SYN and NPOV problems. Basically, the article is another demonstration how the (poor) inclusion criteria of a list can be used (intentionally or not) to Wikilawyer around most or all of Wikipedia's content-related policies. Epic fail.``  I was asked to explain further so I'm doing so here.  Briefly, I think the topic itself and the inclusion criteria fail WP:NOT, WP:NPOV, and WP:SYN.  This is because editors can use lists (intentionally or not) to work around basic notability criteria, of which there are none that clearly apply to lists.  While this is a list of people, the additional guidance helps very little.  My philosophy on lists is that they should be of notable topics only, meaning that the article ``List of X`` should only exist if X qualifies as a notable topic, and that such lists should have unambiguous inclusion criteria that requires no original research.  In the case of this article, editors are having trouble agreeing upon multiple aspects of the inclusion criteria - on who qualifies as a scientist worth mentioning and what it means to oppose the mainstream scientific assessment of global warning - both of which are SYN and NPOV problems.  As for notability, there is no clear notable topic upon which this list is based. The related topics are Scientific opinion on climate change,  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and Global warming controversy.  Because these are not closely related, this suggests again that this article is a povfork.  A couple of WP:SNOW issues as well: Because of the thought of a opposing article such as ``List of scientists supporting the mainstream scientific assessment of global warming`` is absurd, I think this is clearly a povfork.  Given how little mention there is in Global warming controversy of the various opponents lists used for creating this article, this is an inappropriate povfork.   `