Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of 2012 NFL replacement officials (2nd nomination)


 * 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 delete. Ad Orientem (talk) 02:08, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

List of 2012 NFL replacement officials
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Note, the prior 2012 AfD was resolved as no consensus.

For related content, we have 2012 NFL season with links to both:
 * 2012 NFL referee lockout
 * List of 2012 NFL replacement officials

General context: In 2012 The NFL hired replacement referees and this List article identifies a subset of them. These replacement referees officiated the first 3 weeks of the seasons. The NFL has ~7 referees/game * 16 games/week = ~100 referees involved. The List article currently names about 20 of the ~100 referees, none with stand-alone articles. I previously removed unsourced referee names from the List article. The context of the lockout and the pool of available referees implies that most of the ~100 will never be WP:GNG in my view.

The List article was spun out of the Lockout article in Sept 2012 per the article History. At this point, the LEDE of the List article seems fully redundant to the stand-alone article. So the only distinct content is the 20 referee names.

So what if anything should be done with the incomplete List of 2012 NFL replacement officials?
 * 1) Merge the cited referee names back into 2012 NFL referee lockout, redirect this article to that article section
 * 2) Redirect this article and do not merge names (WP:NOTESAL, WP:SALAT)
 * 3) Leave as-is

My view is merge due to the small amount of distinct article content (20 names) and clear overlap with original "donor" article. Thanks, UW Dawgs (talk) 22:56, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
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 * Delete. The lockout is significant, but the individual replacement refs aren't. Clarityfiend (talk) 04:48, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per clarityfiend Jtbobwaysf (talk) 08:48, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete game officials at any level rarely generate enough press to pass WP:GNG and normally officials are not considered notable (with some exceptions, of course). I see no reason to have a list of non-notable officials.--Paul McDonald (talk) 14:01, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per clarityfiend - as above. Deathlibrarian (talk) 12:16, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete none of the names are links to Wikipedia articles, and several of the short bios seem designed to embarrass NFL and "replacement officials" as a whole (Brian Stropolo – Before the Week 2 game between the New Orleans Saints and Carolina Panthers, Stropolo was removed from his role for the game after it was revealed that he was a Saints fan. None of this needs to be merged to 2012 NFL referee lockout. power~enwiki ( π,  ν ) 00:25, 6 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete a collection of some non-notable names that would remain unnoticed in all likelihood. Dial911 (talk) 16:08, 6 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails WP:GNG. \\\Septrillion:-  &#8237;  10 Eleventeen 20:10, 6 July 2018 (UTC)


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