Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Healy's International goals and caps


 * 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 was  partial merge and redirect. As this amount of information is clearly overkill for the parent article, yet similar information seems to be present for other soccer players, I merged just the list of goals he scored for the national team to the parent article and then redirected. --Reinoutr (talk) 11:06, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

David Healy's International goals and caps
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WP:PROD contested by a IP user with no summary at all. This article is a fork of David Healy, being only a list of all single international caps and goals of this footballer, plus a list of "missed" matches and a list of goalscorer which actually makes no sense with the article's subject. This fork is quite unnecessary and never seen in Wikipedia. Angelo (talk) 16:12, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football related deletions. Angelo (talk) 16:13, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete as original prodder. – PeeJay 16:28, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete This only goes to show why we should not allow prods to be removed without explanation. I note that the IP hadn't actually made an edit since January 2006. WP:PROD really needs changing as this is just getting ridiculous. пﮟოьεԻ   5  7  16:32, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Also agree with Number 57, PROD should be fixed/improved (but that is a sob-story for another page). -- Alexf42 16:35, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge content summary into parent article. PROD does need to be fixed. Valenciano (talk) 16:55, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per indiscriminate: "4. Statistics. Long and sprawling lists of statistics" ~ Ningauble (talk) 17:01, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge relevant info into parent article i.e. list of his international goals such as this one. I don't see why "Other Northern Ireland Goalscorers" and games Healy might have played if he wasn't banned/injured etc is relevant or can be proved. --Jimbo[online] 17:06, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment I disagree with the proposal that such a list isn't found elsewhere in Wikipedia. Although there is no football list as far as I know, there is a similar cricket list; List of international cricket centuries by Sachin Tendulkar; which is in fact a Featured List. I don't see any problem with a list of Healy's goals - some of the other data is a little excessive and maybe WP:OR. My own suggestion would be to merge it to David Healy, and if it gets too long, perhaps this list could be recreated/restored. Peanut4 (talk) 17:54, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge relevant information as Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. It's ridiculous to have an article just over the statistics of one person—that's why most players have a subsection in their articles. Latics (talk) 18:53, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge Should be merged into the parent article. The list of Tendulkar's centuries is fair enough as he is the world's leading century-maker in both Test and ODI cricket. Healy's list does have a little similarity relevant as he is the leading Northern Ireland goalscorer but would sit better in the parent. The "missed games" is a nonsense though and has to be removed.--Bcp67 (talk) 19:46, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Leaning towards delete or merge the list of goals only, failing to see how this is necessary to elaborate on the article subject. Could prosify. Punkmorten (talk) 22:04, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. GiantSnowman 12:40, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge Add the table onto the bottom of his article, as with other players (see Roman Pavlyuchenko and Cristiano Ronaldo for examples. DJDannyP // Talk2Me  16:18, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment I think he should have this article but I am adding other details to his he sorely would want that on his stats page, also it makes the page longer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr Hall of England (talk • contribs)
 * merge & redirect to David Healey, possibly too much info for the player article, but I would prefer to try and avoid destroying information Fasach Nua (talk) 14:21, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge Even if you include the U21 goals, Healy's article would be nowhere near as long as say, Ali Daei's. BeL1EveR (talk) 19:35, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:IINFO. Wikipedia is not a footy statistics collection. Stifle (talk) 12:49, 3 September 2008 (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.