Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of off-field incidents involving rugby league players


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The result was   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 01:53, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

List of off-field incidents involving rugby league players

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This list is an almost entirely negative list of incidents, and therefore falls foul of WP:NOT - "Articles should not be written purely to attack the reputation of another person." Because it is entirely concerned with off-field incidents, it is only tangentially relevant to the game of rugby. StAnselm (talk) 23:28, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  —StAnselm (talk) 23:39, 18 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete - Entirely negative - plus many are "alleged" or "he was later found not guilty". So a large portion is a list of rumours and allegations that the courts found didn't actually happen. These should at the very least all be reworded to focus on the facts of each case, not the rumors and stories. Mattlore (talk) 23:56, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete or split into separate scandals (as mentioned on the talk page) as per NFL and other sports wikiprojects.--Jeff79 (talk) 08:42, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete - per nom. I favour the way content like this is organised for US sports.  LunarLander  //  talk  // 19:12, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep and rename to "off-field behaviour of rugby league players" or similar. I have expanded the lead, adding relevant, contextualised references. It is now an "article" rather than just a list, although there is room for more prose. I believe there is a place for this article in Wikipedia as it describes a problematic societal situation of the last decade. WWGB (talk) 07:14, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete - per nom. - Sticks  66  13:50, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete - per nom and notable incidents can still go in player biographies if referenced. GW  (talk)  19:32, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. Any scandal that can be well sourced on its own can have its own article, but the clear intent of this list is simply to smear NRL and NRL players.  Lankiveil (speak to me) 12:44, 24 May 2011 (UTC).
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