Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of association football players diagnosed with COVID-19


 * 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 Snow delete. Very little point in letting this run. Black Kite (talk) 14:58, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

List of association football players diagnosed with COVID-19

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List of people with coronavirus disease 2019 was deleted: this is essentially a subset of that set that was not considered to meet WP:BLP, WP:LISTN and, most importantly, WP:IINFO. That a player is unwell (especially as at present at a time when his team has no fixtures) for a few days, it is of no significance whatsoever, and is not a defining characteristic. We may as well have List of cross country skiers who have had impacted wisdom teeth. Kevin McE (talk) 00:01, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 00:08, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 00:08, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
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 * This has been crosslinked from this deletion review. Depending on the outcome of that discussion, it's possible that a thoughtful sysop might be able to extrapolate enough to close this early.—S Marshall T/C 00:36, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete: This list's existence is fundamentally a failure of common sense as well as WP:LISTN. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs  talk 00:54, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete The list is a WP:BLP violation. This is a more focussed list split from List of people with coronavirus disease 2019 which was deleted and is now the subject of a deletion review. This smacks of WP:CONTENTFORKING Lightburst (talk) 00:59, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. Per WP:BLP, it seems sketchy to call out particular living people for having a disease. I agree with Lightburst, this seems like a thinly veiled attempt to preserve some content from the deleted page List of people with coronavirus disease 2019. epicgenius (talk) 02:13, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
 * It's not, though. Independently created by an established but still relatively new user who's clearly in good faith. I can see why people make these, I just don't agree with them.—S Marshall T/C 03:19, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
 * In that case, I admit I was wrong about this being a content fork. However, I feel this is still against BLP. epicgenius (talk) 03:24, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Parsing We are parsing words. It is indeed a WP:SPINOFF. Original created 3-9 this one created 3-19. Shall we have more spinoffs from the deleted article? Professors diagnosed with COVID-19, World leaders diagnosed with COVID-19, Actors diagnosed with COVID-19 etc. In any event this is a BLP violation and in America it is also a HIPAA violation. Lightburst (talk) 04:20, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
 * The HIPAA Privacy Rule applies to "health care clearinghouses, employer-sponsored health plans, health insurers, and medical service providers that engage in certain transactions", which, although WP:NOT fails to specify, I think we can safely say Wikipedia is not. 2601:143:8101:E50:446C:D483:8D6C:B79A (talk) 04:55, 23 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete - so wrong, in so many ways. If it stays, I'm creating List of association football players diagnosed with Gonorrhea. Nfitz (talk) 04:51, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. What next, List of hockey players missing teeth? Clarityfiend (talk) 06:12, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Snow delete Even if the DRV of the other page is overturned, this is not at all acceptable: excessive cross-categorization. Reywas92Talk 07:09, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:IINFO, being diagnosed with COVID-19 is not nearly significant enough to the subject to warrant such a cross-categorisation. I doubt we'd even bother mentioning it in the subject's article in most cases, unless they died from it. A list of people with a disease isn't necessarily a problem, and List of HIV-positive people is a featured list, but that disease is life changing and COVID-19 isn't.  Hut 8.5  07:52, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment Probably a lone voice here, but I'd wait for the outcome of the DRV. If the main list is restored, then I see no reason why sub-lists can't exist, providing everything is sourced, etc.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 08:15, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete Not only is this article a breach of WP:BLP, this article is also a breach of law in several countries, publishing lists of medical prognosis without consent can allow action be taken against wikipedia, seriously, these lists and anything else like this should be exterminated by admins ASAP. Govvy (talk) 12:25, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete and ban the creator from BLP articles, please. Serious BLP concern, and excessive over-categorization. ValarianB (talk) 13:07, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete as above. GiantSnowman 13:11, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Pointless. Number   5  7  13:17, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete While the split would be reasonable if we're going to have this kind of article in the first place, in order to keep the size manageable, the other concerns above are completely valid as to why we shouldn't have such lists to begin with. To use nom's example, if we were to maintain lists of individuals with impacted wisdom teeth, splitting it into articles for cross-country skiers, musicians, etc. would be reasonable to keep the size manageable, but we shouldn't have such lists to begin with. Smartyllama (talk) 13:31, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per Fitz, llama and ValarianB. Levivich&thinsp;[dubious – discuss] 14:13, 23 March 2020 (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.