Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/African American basketball players


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result of the debate was MOVE DISCUSSION TO WP:CFD. &mdash; J I P  | Talk 05:46, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Category:African American basketball players
Given that over 80 percent of current NBA players are black, this category would include most of the NBA and would be similar to a "Category:White ice hockey players." There are no similar categories for black football or NHL, or categories in any of those sports divided by race. This is an unnecessary category. YHoshua 13:23, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
 * AFD deals with articles (thus the "A"). You want to be at Categories for deletion. &mdash;Cryptic (talk) 17:56, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - if we are going to allow minority groups, then we obviously have to allow majority groups. Its not only against encyclopaedic norms to exclude them, its also racist. Zordrac 00:06, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Then we'll also need to add categories for white NBA players, white NHL players, white football players, etc. Will you be in charge of creating those? And if wanting to ignore race as a qualifier makes one racist, we'll need to add MLK Jr. to the racist category, too. --YHoshua 01:43, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * ..then we obviously have to allow majority groups This is some strange new meaning of "obviously" I wasn't previously aware of. Next up, Category:White country singers, Category:Male boxers, Category:Blonde Swedes, Category:Females who wear dresses, and Category:People of average height. --Calton | Talk 04:28, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete or limit to black basketball players born in Sub-Saharan Africa.--T. Anthony 06:23, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete pointless. CalJW 10:54, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: this belongs to WP:CFD where such cases are solved quite frequently. It should be closed here and moved on CFD. Pavel Vozenilek 23:15, 6 December 2005 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.