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The result was merge with List of Pakistan Air Force cricketers. This article has slightly more text than the two other articles on Pakistani cricketers, but the merits of the subject are the same. Sjakkalle (Check!) 16:25, 17 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Mohammad Naeem (Pakistan Air Force cricketer)

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No coverage found. The classic example (why we should get rid of such articles). Fails

WP:GNG. Störm (talk) 22:22, 7 January 2021 (UTC)[reply
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Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. Spiderone 22:22, 7 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Cricket-related deletion discussions. Spiderone 22:22, 7 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Pakistan-related deletion discussions. Spiderone 22:23, 7 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Commnent - oddly, this has been tagged with a merge proposal for five months with no effort to do anything about it... once again, a significant number of PAF names to look through with threadbare article content, including international representatives. Bobo. 22:24, 7 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete we need to stop favoring quantity over quality on Wikipedia.John Pack Lambert (talk) 15:11, 8 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I would agree with that if the people who were busy destroying the project were trying to build it up instead. But you can't have your cake and eat it. Bobo. 16:58, 8 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Commenting for the sake of being pragmatic, if we go to the stage of employing this for every team, we need to make sure every team has a comprehensive list of players in individual List of X cricketers articles. Something which I've been saying for the best part of the last fifteen years. Something which, not so long ago, almost every single person on the project was dead set against, even though they claim it is necessary now. How times change...
Strangely enough, it is me who is responsible for the compiling of most of these lists too. It's almost as if it's only the people who wanted to enhance the project were doing. Weird, that. Never mind. It's not as if I want to take any credit for doing that, any more than I want to take credit for enhancing the encyclopedia in this way. Bobo. 17:18, 8 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
WP:CCC. Perhaps the expectation that minimal stubs would at some point be expanded has been replaced with the realisation that that is never going to happen because substantial sources simply do not exist. wjematherplease leave a message... 17:27, 8 January 2021 (UTC)[reply
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Maybe it's not going to happen because the articles which are being questioned are mostly those worked on by only three editors, including myself. (I can't help but think there are only three people who have been bothered to do the legwork...) But we're getting off the point. My argument is, as it always has been, that these List of X articles would exist not just for the sake of existing but for the sake of navigation as well. It wasn't until long ago that every single person who would be commenting on these AfDs would have been dead set against articles like List of Gwalior cricketers. I hope you can understand my side of the argument here. Bobo. 17:34, 8 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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