Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Indian Test matches


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The result was delete. postdlf (talk) 21:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

List of Indian Test matches

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This article is just a list and fails WP:NOTSTATS, WP:NOTMIRROR and WP:NOTDIRECTORY Domdeparis (talk) 11:05, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete as with the India ODI one. Joseph2302 11:11, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete per NOTSTATS.  Lugnuts  Precious bodily fluids 15:16, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Cricket-related deletion discussions. Joseph2302 17:09, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Joseph2302 17:09, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. <b style="color:#CCCC00">Joseph</b><b style="color:#00FF00">2302</b> 17:09, 8 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete per all the above. WP:NOTSTATS yet again. Narrative is needed. Jack | talk page 18:12, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikipedia is not ESPNCricinfo. Ajf773 (talk) 21:54, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete - detailed reasons given on the bundle of similar deletions recently proposed, but essentially for the same reasons as suggested above. Blue Square Thing (talk) 20:06, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment We should first draw the line which is notable or which is not. See England cricket team Test results (1877–1914) as this is featured article then why we are deleting all this stuff. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> GreenCricket  (talk)  06:16, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Essentially because that one has been developed by means of a narrative and has additional notes in many of the table rows. The ones up for AfD lack narrative and so provide no context. Many of them are blatant copies of CA or CI material, resulting in a mass of (to the non-cricket reader) meaningless statistics. As a project, we have a duty to all readers to ensure that we comply with WP:IINFO and provide useful information by means of a narrative that conveys the necessary context. Tables of bare statistics are unacceptable per WP:NOTSTATS. Don't forget the Mark Twain/Benjamin Disraeli dictum on the three degrees of untruth: "lies, damned lies and statistics". Jack | talk page 11:57, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment bear in mind that England cricket team Test results (1877–1914) is a featured list not a featured article - there's a substantial difference. Its lead section is much more developed which is crucial. Personally I would prefer more in the way of notes for each group of rows in the table myself - and might even prefer the table to be split into subsections of tours, but the lead is so much better and the scope of the article is also much more targeted at a logical group of years rather than being a completionist set of years. Your general argument is valid though - there are a lot of lists that we'd probably argue should be kept which could use development of proper prose imo - and many articles where lists of statistics should probably be culled and replaced by prose. Blue Square Thing (talk) 16:15, 10 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:NOTSTATS and WP:LISTCRUFT. Adding good quality prose and high resolution images around the list, multiple reviewers and peer reviews, putting stars on top, would still make it NOTSTATS and LISTCRUFT. §§<i style="color:#E0115F;">Dharmadhyaksha</i>§§ {Talk / Edits} 09:27, 12 November 2016 (UTC)


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