Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Turkish football transfers summer 2010


 * 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   keep. A close thing, but just edging into 'keep' territory. This might be a suitable topic for an RfC to be started about, so that a definitive policy or guideline can be established, as I could see this discussion taking place at various times in the future! --  Phantom Steve / talk &#124; contribs \ 09:37, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

List of Turkish football transfers summer 2010

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Contested PROD. Wikipedia is not the news or a sports almanac. This article constitutes original research. Stifle (talk) 11:22, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. ChrisTheDude (talk) 12:15, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
 * It's not an indiscriminate collection of statistics either, but we still have a list of pollings of the 2008 presidential election and a list of Luton matches against league oppponents. Who knows what wikipedia is? Sandman888 (talk) 12:35, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete as I don't think its useful. Sandman888 (talk) 12:39, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep upon re-reading NOT#STATS, wikipedia is indeed (also) a collection of stats. Perhaps it shouldn't be called NOTSTATS but w/e. Sandman888 (talk) 19:09, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Neutral - but why select this one article out of the many in Category:Football transfers summer 2010? -- Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 12:42, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Regardless of the outcome of the AfD, this article and List of Turkish football transfers 2010-2011 need merging. Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 15:56, 1 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete or Merge. Helpful information, but probably should merge with each team's season page. If the team does not have a page for this season, it's probably not particularly important information. Bds69 (talk) 13:52, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Many teams don't have their own season pages. But it doesn't mean the information is not important. Lots of big teams don't have season pages only because there are no enthusiasts to create them and update regularly. VanHelsing.16 (talk) 13:09, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep per Daemonic Kangaroo, pending a discussion on whether these sorts of lists are worthwhile. Deletion may prove to be the longer term way forward, but we need a more general discussion on the matter than a single AfD. See the recently kept Manchester United match AfD, versus the equally notable but deleted Tottenham match AfD. Unless this AfD is closed as a keep, we will undoubtedly see similar inconsistency should someone decide to nominate the English, Scottish, American or German equivalent. --WFC-- 15:51, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I throw a die to ease the decision process of whether a particular list should be deleted or not. I can highly recommend it. Sandman888 (talk) 14:25, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Taking your contributions to this discussion in isolation, most readers would assume that you are looking to make the place more inconsistent. I know for a fact that you're here to improve the place, and readily conceed that content-wise you've done more to improve Wikipedia than I'm ever likely to. But that is how your comments look. --WFC-- 16:45, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I genuinely begin to think a central committee that made guidelines would save wikipedians years of policy-creation. Sandman888 (talk) 19:09, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
 * There are 168 articles of this type. They provide useful information for those who follow the football transfer market. However, some of them are well sourced (example), some are not. This needs a discussion for sure. My vote is to keep these lists, or at least the well sourced ones. VanHelsing.16 (talk) 13:09, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete WP:NOT Secret account 04:14, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep - at least for now. More discussion is needed on this type of article in general. I agree with the above statements that these articles provide useful information, and the ones for the major football playing nations are well sourced. The claim that it constitutes original research is, with all due respect to the nominator, simply absurd. This one, unfortunately, is not well sourced, but that can be changed. In my opinion, it requires sourcing not deletion. Sir Sputnik (talk) 15:16, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Wikipedia is not a directory. Hekerui (talk) 11:39, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep per Daemonic Kangaroo. GiantSnowman 14:22, 8 September 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.