Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Major League Baseball players from Slovakia


 * 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   redirect to List of Major League Baseball players from Europe. The merge has been performed; all this needs is a redirect now. Tim Song (talk) 06:40, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

List of Major League Baseball players from Slovakia
Neither of the two players on this list was born in Slovakia. Slovakia did not exist as a nation when they were born. They were both born in what was known as Czechoslovakia. Linhart's hometown is now part of the Czech Republic while Valo's is now part of Poland. Kinston eagle (talk) 00:12, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
 * This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing step 3). It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 10:52, 5 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete There are few enough MLB players who were natives of Eastern European nations, or for that matter, European nations east or west-- 85 from the British Isles -- that they can be grouped from one region. Slovakian pride notwithstanding, this has problems as listed above, and, being an easy quote from baseball-reference.com, it doesn't take into account whether the person really was "Slovakian" by ethnicity or location of their birthplace.  I imagine that some of the natives of Austria-Hungary might be from towns in what is now Slovakia, but there are other ways to organize this.  Mandsford (talk) 14:30, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment – The list is extremely small at the moment, as are a couple of other similar lists, such as List of Major League Baseball players from Russia (to name one at random). In the various player lists from European countries, I count 177 players total across 13 lists. Would it be possible to merge these lists into one larger List of Major League Baseball players from Europe, divided by country, and leave redirects where the country lists are now? That would seem more useful to me as a reader than a two or five-item list with little hope of imminent expansion. Of course, that doesn't solve the problem of players being born in different countries than those existing in the present, which is apparent throwing the Baseball Reference site for a loop.  Giants2008  ( 27 and counting ) 00:24, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
 * That would make excellent sense to me. The titles of the lists would still be in existence, but they would be redirecting to an article called "List of MLB players born in Europe" rather than "List of MLB players born in ".   Mandsford (talk) 12:23, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:46, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Strong keep - You've obviously only glanced at their birthplaces. Valo was born in Rybník, Levice District in Slovakia and Linhart in Zborov, Bardejov District in Slovakia.  JRA _ Westy Qld2  Talk 08:49, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
 * You obviously believe every unsourced thing you read on Wikipedia. Where is the source that says that they come from that Rybnik and that Zborov. The source only says that they came from towns of the same name in the old Czechoslovakia. For example, where's the source that suggests Linhart came from that Zborov and not Zborov (Šumperk District) in the Czech Republic? The source doesn't say that. Regardless, neither was born in SLOVAKIA they were born in Czechoslovakia. Slovakia as a nation didn't exist when they were born. Kinston eagle (talk) 23:10, 10 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Merge with other such lists to List of Major League Baseball players from Europe per Giants2008. I would gladly perform the merge should this article be kept to do so.  Cheers,    A rbitrarily 0    ( talk ) 22:05, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: the page has now been merged into List of Major League Baseball players from Europe. Regards,    A rbitrarily 0    ( talk ) 23:30, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
 * There was no consensus for you to do this and it did not solve the problem that these players are still listed as being from Slovakia while there is no source stating that they are from Slovakia. The source only states that they were from Czechoslovakia without any indication as to whether they are from that area that is now Slovakia or from what is now the Czech Republic. Thank you for making this an even more muddled mess than it already was. Kinston eagle (talk) 02:33, 13 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Perhaps we can just rename the article/section to List of Major League Baseball players from Czechoslovakia?-- Pink Bull  04:14, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Support the merge to List of Major League Baseball players from Europe as a good compromise. Cunard (talk) 05:36, 13 May 2010 (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.