Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of professional mountain bikers


 * 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 keep (non-admin closure). Sir Sputnik (talk) 18:12, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

List of professional mountain bikers

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Unsourced, largely unlinked, BLP listcruft Andy Dingley (talk) 21:40, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions.  /wiae   /tlk  22:59, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
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 * Keep, obviously verifiable, plenty of articles already included and many more to include, WP:LISTPURP-passing index complementary to Category:Mountain bikers per WP:CLN. postdlf (talk) 23:41, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
 * It has been tagged for the same problem since 2009. It isn't "a bit flakey" in places, it is totally unsourced. Half the entries here aren't even linked, or are simply redlinked. I accept that there are some entries here linking to articles on notable riders with at least some sourcing. But as an overall list, WP fails on it. It isn't of acceptable quality for an article involving BLP, and if it hasn't achieved one single source since 2009, I doubt if it can be made so. Andy Dingley (talk) 23:52, 3 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep. Needs editing but I see no justification for deletion. --Michig (talk) 07:35, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Why are "professional" mountain bikers notable? We don't regard that as sufficient for other sports. So what is the level needed for inclusion here? Certainly the top tier would belong in such a list, but how far does it go? What is "professional"? A handful of sponsorship doesn't really cut it either. But this article neither defines its criteria, nor sources anything. That's just not good enough for BLPs and yes, AfD is cleanup, when it comes to unsourced BLP. Andy Dingley (talk) 21:17, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Maybe they're not all notable, but clearly many are, and a list of them seems a perfectly reasonable thing to have here. If all that needs doing is tightening the scope of the list then that's an editing issue. This isn't a BLP. --Michig (talk) 21:26, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
 * My guess is that was added to the title to keep out any notable person who merely mountain biked as a hobby. That kind of threshold issue isn't unique to this subject, and I'd assume the list should ultimately have the same scope as the category. But as Michig says, that's all an issue for editing. postdlf (talk) 22:42, 5 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep - AfD is not cleanup, if it needs work then work on it. What's not encyclopedic about a list of professional mountain bikers? Ivanvector 🍁 (talk) 20:38, 4 March 2016 (UTC)


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