Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of years in South African sport


 * 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__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Liz Read! Talk! 20:53, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

List of years in South African sport

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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Star   Mississippi  17:38, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I believe this is a Navigational list, but it is serving almost entirely red links.
 * The content it does serve hinders navigation. Take for example the unsourced 1962 in South African sport which is a Content fork of 1962_in_South_Africa, except the latter section has no content.
 * Rather than work bottom up and further degrade the usefulness of this list by proposing mergers of the subarticles, I wanted to see if there was consensus for deleting or merging the main article.
 * My policy argument for deleting or reworking this article is that per WP:NOPAGE we are not serving readers best by organizing content this way. If a particular year of sport in South Africa can get enough significant coverage, it can then be built out and perhaps expanded into a true content fork. But by spreading ourselves out across these pages that aren't yet ready to be separate, we're making things more clunky. ForksForks (talk) 16:59, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of South Africa-related deletion discussions. ForksForks (talk) 16:59, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 17:08, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 17:08, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Keep. Afd is not for cleanup. After doing a random sampling, I can say that there are legitimate year lists, so it does serve a navigational purpose. Clarityfiend (talk) 03:53, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 19:36, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Keep as Clarityfiend says AfD is not from cleanup. That the nominator doesn't find is useful is poor evidence that it actually hinders navigation as they claim.  Talk page discussion on the proper format for this content ("Timeline of South African sport" perhaps) is the way forward, not deletion.  Eluchil404 (talk) 23:53, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Keep - I really hate to say this but given how much I've seeing too much fuss with stuff in favor of deleting articles in AfD discussions, especially where there's a lack of evidence that an article should be deleted. I have to agree with Eluchil and Clarityfiend on this. Given that it does have a purpose to help users navigate to a year in a specific history in sporting event, it does have a purpose. 20chances (talk) 17:58, 23 March 2024 (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.