Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Major League Baseball players who have hit 30 or more home runs before the All-Star break


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The result was   delete. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 14:14, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Major League Baseball players who have hit 30 or more home runs before the All-Star break

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Notability? Why 30 HRs prior to the All Star break? Is this some grand achievement that is widely recognized? No, it's just a round number. – Muboshgu (talk) 22:39, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
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 * Weak delete. Seems like an unnecessary list to me.  Erpert  Who is this guy? 23:22, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete A list with an absolutely random membership criterion. Why not 20? Why not 40? No references presented to show that 30 is accepted as an important criterion by reliable sources which cover baseball. Edison (talk) 01:53, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete The article is purely WP:TRIVIA about a statistic which also violates WP:NOT by not providing "sufficient explanatory text to put statistics within the article in their proper context for a general reader." It fails WP:GNG by lacking multiple sources with significant and non WP:ROUTINE coverage explaining the historical context of the otherwise arbitrary number of home runs before an arbitrary date.  —Bagumba (talk) 02:10, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete as being trivia (and oddly arbitrary). —Disavian (talk/contribs) 00:24, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
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 * I suspect that the rationale behind setting the cutoff for the list at 30 is based on the fact that Ruth's record for single-season HR was 60, and thus a player with 30+ at the break was notionally on pace to match or break the record. That particular cutoff obviously makes much less sense now that Barry Bonds has moved the bar up to 73. -Hit bull, win steak(Moo!) 16:20, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
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