Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of football (soccer) players


 * 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 of the debate was:
 * keep List of football (soccer) players as a list of lists (because I'm lazy, I've just removed most of the content, but it could probably benefit from someone going through Category:Lists of football (soccer) players and expanding)
 * and delete List of renowned football players, since I don't see anyone jumping to its defence. Flowerparty ☀ 06:53, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

List of football (soccer) players
There are too many footballers in the world to make this list maintainable. A category would surely serve the purpose better. And it is difficult to determine an objective, workable criteria of inclusion on the list if it does not aim to be an exhaustive list -- down that road lies only madness, and POV.

See also discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football.

Also nominated in this AfD is List of renowned football players for the same reason. --Pkchan 17:58, 25 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete. --Pkchan 18:00, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete and categorize. -- stubblyh ea d | T/c 18:06, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Categorize. BryanG(talk) 18:42, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete and categorize A list would be endless; this kind of thing is the reason categories exist. -- Kicking222 19:07, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Empty list ("delete"), categorize and keep List of football (soccer) players as a list of lists, linking to maintainable lists like FIFA Player of the Year or List of England international footballers. – Elisson • Talk 19:12, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Johan Elisson has made a very sensible recommendation which I suppor t. Keeping this as a list of lists is sensible. Useful lists and categories can and should work together. Keep as modified by Johan Elisson. Capitalistroadster 21:17, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete and categorise the former, just delete the latter One is unmanageable, the other has a title that is inherently POV. I would support a list containing an externally verified subset of 'renowned' footballers, e.g. Pele's recent choice of the 100 greatest (although sadly, the great man played the game better than he talks it). Badgerpatrol 01:25, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Do what Elisson suggests above. --Metropolitan90 06:54, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
 * In that case the name should be Lists of football (soccer) players and not the current name. Punkmorten 21:17, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Convert to list of lists as per Elisson. Qwghlm 09:40, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete and categorise the former. -- Alias Flood 00:23, 1 June 2006 (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.