Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Port Vale F.C. players with fewer than 50 league appearances


 * 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.  

Nominator withdrawing, sorry, but I can't face entering into any debate with someone who deletes PROD tags on their own articles with no summary and opens their discussion with "Well you are plainly wrong to nominate this." Keep. ╟─ Treasury Tag ► contribs ─╢ 22:07, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

List of Port Vale F.C. players with fewer than 50 league appearances

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Per the PROD, which was removed without explanation. ╟─ Treasury Tag ► contribs ─╢ 21:44, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep It appears to be the "sister page" to List of Port Vale F.C. players, which shows players with 50 or more league appearances. Combining the two would create a page that is far too long. The logical situation is the current one, with two separate lists. Jenuk1985  |  Talk  21:48, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Strong keep Well you are plainly wrong to nominate this. It is a list of 704 notable individuals, about half of which already have articles, the other half will have articles created in the future. This has all the basic data on their career.

Also, see this sister page to a Wikipedia Featured Article. If this article is to be deleted then we will have no choice to delete that one well and by extension debate the value of the Featured Article itself.

"incredibly long page", yes it is long, it has to be, I would rate it a better option than chopping it further into a third page.

"very "niche"", niche, but every article in the list has or will have an article of its own?

"arguably unencyclopedic and non-notable", everyone in the list is notable, this is an article which gives the data on what made them notable, so how it could possibly be non-notable escapes me.

"completely unreferenced" is a total joke as four references are listed. If you believe I am lying however on how many goals Alan Johnson scored feel free to check the listed reference book by Jeff Kent Port Vale Personalities. For post-1996 stats Soccerbase has the data. However, if this is not satisfactory for you then you will have to tag most of the articles that have already been created as uncited, seen as the data is listed there.--EchetusXe (talk) 22:01, 3 March 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.