Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Romanian expatriate footballers

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The result was no consensus. Swarm ♠ 03:49, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

List of Romanian expatriate footballers

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Past consensus has been that lists of this type are not notable. See

general notability guideline Sir Sputnik (talk) 00:32, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply
]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Sir Sputnik (talk) 00:33, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Do not delete this page - It is currently one page "List of Romanian expatriate footballers" and I think the content is good and developed than before and more up to date. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AlexGerrard77 (talk • contribs) 03:55, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - per prior consensus, and
    WP:LISTCRUFT. GiantSnowman 09:57, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply
    ]
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  • Delete - This is already fulfilled by Category:Romanian expatriate footballers so no need for an article. Spiderone 12:14, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep, annotated, so much more useful than that category . Categories don't make good lists redundant per
    WP:CLN Siuenti (talk) 20:04, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply
    ]
WP:GNG. Sir Sputnik (talk) 20:16, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply
]
"This list brings together related topics in X and is useful for navigating that subject." Siuenti (talk) 20:29, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
It doesn't change the fact that the subject itself is not notable though. Sir Sputnik (talk) 20:37, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I prefer to think of it as a sub-list of
list of Romanian footballers, split off by the defining characteristic of where they played. Siuenti (talk) 14:24, 31 August 2015 (UTC)[reply
]
Sir Sputnik, "WP:USEFUL" is not a fair rebuttal considering that Siuenti was responding to Spiderone's deletion argument above that the list wasn't useful in light of the category (an argument that is also contra
WP:CLN). But regardless, utility is almost always going to be relevant to list AFDs, which are typically more about how we present information rather than the information itself. postdlf (talk) 16:24, 2 September 2015 (UTC)[reply
]
  • Comment let's just examine useful Category:Romanian expatriate footballers is. I think the most likely search criteria for these people are notability, level of play, and country they went to. The category is completely useless for all of them, and the best thing you can do with it is pick members at random, or start at the beginning and work your way through, very slowly. The list covers level of play and destination country, and would also be good place to mention the most notable ones in the lead. Siuenti (talk) 14:24, 31 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep per
    WP:LISTPURP is the more relevant guideline. Here we have a whole category structure at Category:Expatriate association football players by nationality. If expatriate playing status is standard and significant enough to categorize, then it's certainly standard and significant enough to list. postdlf (talk) 16:24, 2 September 2015 (UTC)[reply
    ]
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  • Keep the list, but ensure that each of the listed footballers satisfy the notability criteria, per
    WP:CSC. Razvan Socol (talk) 05:35, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply
    ]
Incorrect. If you look at the article's lead you will notice that the list is limited to "professional leagues" and "football". Macosal (talk) 01:44, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Swarm ♠ 21:28, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep per the rationale postdlf provided. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 06:52, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment if this article is to be kept, it does require a substantial overhaul. I'm not against keeping it by any means, but: 1. The criteria need to be clarified. The lead says leagues need to be professional (I'd assume as per
    Hagi Gligor
    might be of Romanian descent but was born and raised in Australia and plays for Australian youth teams - per convention on other Wikipedia pages he shouldn't be included. Also the single reference currently provided is insufficient.
I'm not against keeping the page - I know in Australia at least that players playing abroad in pro leagues do receive a lot of public attention (although I can't say I'm too familiar with the situation in Romania) but these improvements do need to be made (I might make some of them myself, but don't have the time/knowledge to do them all. I'd probably be inclined to wait until the result of this before doing anything too substantial only to see it deleted anyway. I'd also suggest something like List of foreign Premier League players being used as a template for how to structure the page and in particular its lead. Macosal (talk) 14:02, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Also just noticed that this list is limited to "currently playing abroad. I think that needs to change too.... Macosal (talk) 14:03, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Inclusion criteria is a matter for editing. And it should be obvious that such a list should be limited to those who merit articles, by whatever standard. postdlf (talk) 22:25, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with you that inclusion criteria is a matter for editing rather than deletion. However, in its current state the article requires significant change or else I don't think it should remain. "Current" players is a clear concern to me (see
WP:RECENT). I don't think the article should remain if it's just an index of Romanians playing overseas right now - it needs to be opened up to all time. Also I think players must not only be notable, they must have taken the field and that must have been in a fully professional league, or else the criteria for inclusion are too broad/indeterminate. If these changes were implemented then I would probably agree to keeping the list, but as I've said, in its current state I do have issues. Macosal (talk) 03:28, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply
]
Yes, it shouldn't be limited to current players. But deletion certainly won't fix that, and per policy (
WP:PRESERVE) we don't delete content for fixable problems (a problem that I've fixed in any event). postdlf (talk) 14:31, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply
]
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