Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of ice hockey players of Asian descent (2nd nomination)


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The result was   delete.  MBisanz  talk 00:16, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

List of ice hockey players of Asian descent
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Cites needed for three years. Overly broad list of players with ancestry in Eastern, Southeastern, or Southern Asia at some point, so it's excluding portions thereof, first of all, so the scope isn't right. Most of the players are of mixed descent, and almost all are American or Canadian in nationality. Therefore, the intersection is somewhat spurious and unencyclopedic. I would note the first AfD keep included comments to keep but improve refs (didn't happen) and keep but add Russians and Kazakhs as "Northern Asians" (also did not happen), as well as a comment that this was not really all-inclusive of the Middle East, either. In short, I think the article was provisionally kept, and none of the issues were addressed adequately. MSJapan (talk) 04:14, 20 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Strong Delete The absence of a clear definition of Asian makes this a pointless article. HiLo48 (talk) 06:11, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete Vaguely defined, non-notable listkruft. Nwlaw63 (talk) 17:51, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete, easily construed as grouping by race, which we dont do. By continent, however, can be done, but I am opposed to using Asia as a descriptor, just cause its so huge. its like saying "people of western hemisphere descent". however, there is an informative discussion at Categories for discussion/Log/2013 January 14, which makes a good case for keeping the category, thus a list like this.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 20:19, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep Just like other pages. It is very rare to see any NHL players who are Asian descent in the White-dominated sport. As an Asian-Canadian, myself, it is not difficult who are Asian descent or not. Marc87 (talk) 23:47, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Singling them out for being different doesn't help with diversity. - The Bushranger One ping only 01:13, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
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