Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of international matches umpired by Marais Erasmus


 * 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.  Sandstein  16:53, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

List of international matches umpired by Marais Erasmus

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Classic case of WP:IINFO. Utterly pointless and useless set of stats. What next? List of international matches played by Virat Kohli?  Lugnuts  Precious bodily fluids 08:45, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
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 * What is the harm in maintaining an umpire's statistics?? Cricket246 (talk) 08:55, 29 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete both. Within WP:IINFO is WP:NOTSTATS, a more precise rationale for the proposal. Please read note 3 which states: "'Excessive listings of statistics. Any statistics should be accompanied by explanatory text providing context. Long recitations of statistics reduce readability and may be confusing. Where large quantities of statistics are appropriate (e.g. Nationwide opinion polling for the United States presidential election, 2012) consider placing them in tables to enhance readability; where large quantities are not appropriate (e.g. the main article United States presidential election, 2012) omit excess statistics and summarise'."
 * This article is a bare list of statistics with no narrative and no key or other means of describing to non-cricket readers the meaning and context of the data. In addition, I think lists of this sort are done to excess and should be limited to persons who had major importance in cricket history which would exclude, inter alia, the curse of recentism. Jack | talk page 09:28, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
 * See also the extra tags I've placed on the article: no categories, no lead, no context, etc. Jack | talk page 09:35, 29 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Update - I've just found the same sort of article for Joel Wilson, so I've bundled that here too.  Lugnuts  Precious bodily fluids 10:06, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
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 * Delete per WP:NOTSTATS, WP:NOTMIRROR, and WP:NOTDIRECTORY – "Wikipedia is not a directory of everything in the universe that exists or has existed". There are at least two publicly available websites that list this information, and I'm sure anyone looking for a list of matches officiated by a particular umpire will already be aware of both of those. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> IgnorantArmies  (talk)  12:26, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete per WHATTHE? <b style="color:#00cc33">Harrias</b> talk 17:02, 29 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:NOTSTATS -- LahiruG talk 05:32, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination and all above. Sorry for the contributor's effort.-- Chanaka L  ( talk ) 09:35, 1 November 2016 (UTC)


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