Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of association football players with dual nationality


 * 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   delete. NW ( Talk ) 02:10, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

List of association football players with dual nationality
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Another of those trivial lists. It is overwhelmingly incomplete, inconsistent, and an orphaned article (only a redirect and a user page link to it). VEO15 (talk) 03:23, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment. This appears to have never been fully listed, so I've re-added the AFD template to the article and added it to a debate for today. Esteffect (talk) 16:52, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. This does have a use, but too many players have dual nationality (most French internationals, for a start). Esteffect (talk) 16:48, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. GiantSnowman 17:38, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - The content of this article, if it is ever to become comprehensive, would be too massive to make it a feasible subject. – PeeJay 17:41, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep - as article creator. The list is not trivial - dual-nationality in football is a manjor issue - it may be incomplete (but says so, and many lists aren't, so it's a moot point), I don't understand how it is "inconsistent", and being an orphan is no reason to delete. Esteffect - saying that "too many players have dual nationality" surely means that it merits having a list of them - a list which is organised, referenced, and kept tidy, as this one is. Look at the article history - I am constantly removing unreferenced players that people add! And if the article gets too big, it can be broken down into seperate articles - size is not an issue here. GiantSnowman 17:43, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
 * The problem is that there simply is too many. In France alone, there has probably been thousands of dual nationality footballers, and most Soviet footballers from a short time ago possessed multiple nationalities too (such as Czechoslovakia's entire team). Esteffect (talk) 23:37, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
 * But size shouldn't be an issue...surely we want an encyclopedia to be comprehensive? GiantSnowman 17:50, 9 August 2010 (UTC)


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 * Keep Size is not a matter. It can be split to A to C, D to F, or a separate list for Argentine. the list currently with citations. Matthew_hk   t  c  06:15, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Seems arbitrary to me, if dual-nationality is relevant to a player then it can be mentioned on his/her article. A list which can never be completed which, whilst not a reason for deletion in itself, is not necessarily desirable! --129.234.252.67 (talk) 09:41, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. Will either incorrectly contain or misleadingly ignore technically impossible combinations of dual nationalities, in cases where one or both countries do not recognise the concept. Would in many cases require two citations per individual, which is an implausible amount of referencing that on a large scale will far exceed the template limits of wikipedia pages. Although I can see how this might in some cases be relevant (for instance an international from outside of these regions gaining EU or US citizenship to get around nationality restrictions in domestic leagues), it certainly isn't universally important. --WFC-- 01:26, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete: Horrendous concept for a list; it is pure trivia and can never be complete. The people on the list have are not notable for having dual nationality, and they share nothing in common that would warrant listing them together other than the fact their parents have different nationalities, which is a complete non-fact. Big  Dom  15:58, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
 * delete per bigdom. Sandman888 (talk) Latest FLC 22:08, 12 August 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.