Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List Of Football Diasporas By Country


 * 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   a rather unanimous delete. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 20:25, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

List Of Football Diasporas By Country

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Fails notability, poorly sourced and also a repeat of many other pages created by this user Spiderone (talk) 11:48, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football related deletions. GiantSnowman 12:17, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom; completely non-notable and indiscriminate list. GiantSnowman 12:18, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete, non-notable, indiscriminate, unsourced, unverifiable. --Angelo (talk) 12:44, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Entirely unuseful, and what "diaspora" means here is anyone's guess. Under "Algeria" Matteo Ferrari is listed under Guinea and Italy--what does that even mean? He has an Italian father and a Guinean mother (by birth? nationality)--so, every soccer player born of parents (one or both?) of different nationalities than the player's, or every soccer player who grows up in a different country from where they were born, or every soccer player whose parents have emigrated should be on this list? It's worse than trivia, because trivia often at least explains what is being stated. This list does not even do that. And if it did, it would probably be listcruft. Drmies (talk) 14:17, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete awful list that fails WP:V and WP:N. John Sloan @ 23:18, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
 * This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing step 3). It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 14:37, 20 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete the scope of the article is nowhere defined, and not a encyclopedic content. Nergaal (talk) 15:19, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. I usually don't touch sports AfDs because I can't judge notability at all. But this article just seems pointless. Hairhorn (talk) 16:32, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Agree with "pointless" comments. --Quartermaster (talk) 17:32, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Not just original research, but badly done original research. Tony Meola is a castoff from Italy?  He's a native of New Jersey!  Overlooking the odd use of the word "diaspora" to describe a person, it looks like the intent was to show where the players from each nation "went to".  The problem is the assumption that everyone with a German ancestor is someone who went to somewhere else "from Germany", or, as in Meola's case, that if you've got an Italian name, you're a citizen of Italia.  This is even worse than the "multiracial teams" list that was nominated yesterday.  One might as well say "this guy's a kraut, this guy's a wop, this guy's a Yank".  Mandsford (talk) 01:04, 21 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete. I cannot figure out the criteria by which the entries on this list were determined. To take one example, the diaspora for Hawaii has two entries under it: for China, Brian Ching, and for the USA, Brian Ching again. This suggests to me that it is being claimed that Ching left the country of Hawaii to go and play for the Chinese and American soccer teams. However, Hawaii has not been an independent country since 80 years before Ching was born; Ching was born there as a U.S. citizen. He has played his entire soccer career for U.S. clubs and the U.S. national team -- the team of the country where he was born. He has never played for a Chinese club or a Chinese national team. Maybe the writer of this article knows what he meant by this, but he hasn't told the rest of us. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:14, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. per nom. What Angelo said. BTW, under the (I guess) determination of this list, you could add half of Category:New Zealand international footballers to England and Scotland sections-- Club Oranje T 11:57, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete, not well done. Punkmorten (talk) 17:14, 23 May 2009 (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.