Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2011 African U-17 Championship squads


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The result was   delete. Tawker (talk) 21:05, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

2011 African U-17 Championship squads

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Contested PROD. A list of non-notable youth players (mostly all redlinks), which fails WP:GNG and WP:NOTSTATS for individual tournaments. Previous consensus is that we should not have lists such as this, precedent set at 2014 Granatkin Memorial squads AfD and 2013 Cyprus Cup squads AfD. JMHamo (talk) 12:58, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

I am also nominating the following article for the same reason given above.




 * Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. JMHamo (talk) 12:59, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions.  J i m Carter  ( talk ) 13:19, 1 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete - per nom, also no indication that the squads themselves were the subject of any significant reliable coverage per GNG. Fenix down (talk) 13:44, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete both - per precedent, non-notable lists of non-notable people. GiantSnowman 18:15, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
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 * Keep - NOTSTATS talks about Excessive listing of statistics, I do not see how these squad list can be tagged as "excessive" as per GNG and having so many red links on an article is never a criteria for deletion. Darreg (talk) 07:49, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment - they're excessive because there is no indication that the squads attending this youth tournament received any significant reliable coverage as subject in themselves. Fenix down (talk) 13:11, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment - Is there any continental soccer tournament notable enough to be on Wikipedia and does not have an annual squad list article because of redlinks? #JustAsking #NotImplyingAnything Darreg (talk) 22:54, 3 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete Both, I would certainly consider lists of red names of players who attended a lower level tournament, the vast majority of which will never lead to real articles, to be excessive. Incidentally, if kept, the articles need to be renamed to make it clear what sport is being discussed.  Lankiveil (speak to me) 07:37, 9 April 2014 (UTC).
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