Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of international goals scored by Gary Lineker


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The result was merge to Gary Lineker. Missvain (talk) 22:20, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

List of international goals scored by Gary Lineker

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Per this, this, this, this, and this, we don't keep these types of articles unless they are or were the top goalscorer for their country.  Bait30  Talk 2 me pls? 21:39, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions.   Bait30   Talk 2 me pls? 21:39, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Merge/redirect back to parent article per recent AFD consensus (see e.g. this and this. GiantSnowman 22:29, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Merge Also again on this AfD, merge back, Lineker's article isn't that big surprisingly how big a personality he is. Govvy (talk) 10:35, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Merge back to parent article per above comments. I believe the consensus is for a merge or redirect for all similar articles.  // Timothy ::  talk  20:19, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete outright, do not merge. The parent article already contains a brief summary of this information, and that is (more than) enough. This list is WP:INDISCRIMINATE and should never have been created in the first place; the list of goals belongs not in an encyclopaedia, but on a fansite or similar. This applies to all these lists, including featured ones such as List of international goals scored by Abby Wambach and List of international goals scored by Cristiano Ronaldo. We also should not have List of 100 meter dashes by Usain Bolt or List of pole vaults by Sergey Bubka. Editors need to learn to summarize this information instead of exhaustively enumerating each example. To put it another way, we should strive to write Climate of London, not List of rainy days in London. TompaDompa (talk) 01:42, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Missvain (talk) 01:03, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Merge relevant information, to Gary Lineker. Nfitz (talk) 18:46, 28 December 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.