Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of athletes in film


 * 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 Adam Cuerden talk 18:36, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

List of athletes in film
Delete - Wikipedia is not a repository of loosely-associated topics. That an athlete was in a movie is nowhere near sufficient to justify this article. Otto4711 02:49, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletions.   -- SkierRMH 21:45, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletions.   -- SkierRMH 21:45, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film and TV-related deletions.   -- SkierRMH 21:45, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete This is what categories are for. Unmaintainable as it is US-centric at the money, focussing mainly on US based sports etc. Will surely become to big and unmaintainable, categories are a much better idea.--Dacium 04:56, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Almost impossible to maintain. -- † Ðy§ep§ion † Speak your mind 18:02, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete too broad. Kolindigo 19:38, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep Good collection of information, but needs more expansion. If worse comes to worse, it should be split into lists such as "List of football athletes in film"/"List of basketball athletes in film", etc. It needs more dedicated efforts to perhaps explain the role of the athlete in the film. --Nehrams2020 05:18, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep as per Nehrams2020. Hoverfish Talk 07:32, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Huge superlist w/o any use. Pavel Vozenilek 19:07, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep the sports movie genre is a significant one, and this list even goes so far as to divide up the list by the particular sport involved. Useful, and IMHO fails the "loosely-associated" rule used to list it for deletion in the first place. Mermaid from the Baltic Sea 17:56, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
 * This is not a list of "sports movies." It is a list of movies in which an athlete appears, without regard to whether the athlete is playing an athlete or some other type of character and without regard to the subject matter of the film. The list is not divided into film by type of sport, rather, by film by sport the athlete/actor played. Your comments do not appear to apply to the article as it currently exists. And as always, WP:USEFUL is not the greatest of arguments. Otto4711 20:52, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Oops, my mistake. Well, my vote is still "keep" (and expand) per the reasons given byNehrams2020 and Peregrine Fisher. Mermaid from the Baltic Sea 00:08, 27 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep - per WP:LIST: information and navigation. An athlete being in the film is sufficient commonality. - Peregrine Fisher 02:12, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Create new category: It should be in a category instead of a list (ex:professionnal athletes appearing in movies or something like that)JForget 00:40, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete good call on the mass nomination for all these film lists. Usedup 01:14, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete per nom. --Parker007 17:56, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
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