Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Minor League Baseball players who committed suicide


 * 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. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 19:59, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Minor League Baseball players who committed suicide

 * – ( View AfD View log | edits since nomination)

That's one bizarre topic for a list: somehow, major leaguers are excluded from the scope so we're left with little-known baseball players that (rightfully) don't have an article on Wikipedia. The source is used quite a bit on Wikipedia so on one hand I'm tempted to assume that it is considered reliable but on the other hand, looking through the site, a lot of its content is newspaper clippings which is useful for us but doesn't really say much about the site's reliability. Pichpich (talk) 22:44, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Baseball-related deletion discussions. Pichpich (talk) 22:44, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 22:56, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 22:56, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NOTDIR, specifically as a "non-encyclopedic cross-categorization". Most minor league ball players are not notable (I see the external link includes Marty Bergen (baseball), who is). The ones who died by suicide are not so likely to be notable either. The Deadball Era is a decent site, but it's a niche website that won't do much for establishing notability. – Muboshgu (talk) 23:04, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete The Selection criteria is of non-notable people. However, List of baseball players who committed suicide has possibilities, and if there are notable minor leaguers they could be a subsection in that list.  Rgrds. --Bison X (talk) 23:29, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Move to List of baseball players who committed suicide as per Bison X's suggestion above, except that I'd like to preserve the edit history. Reduce the current list to only notable entries, start including major league, and we've got a decent list. Fieari (talk) 00:22, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I'd question the relevance of that list too. It's a pretty arbitrary intersection. Something like List of boxers who committed suicide would make a bit of sense because of research showing potential links between suicide risk and chronic traumatic encephalopathy. There's no evidence that playing baseball and dying by suicide are in any way related so List of baseball players who committed suicide is as irrelevant as List of architects who committed suicide and List of baseball players who died in a car crash. Pichpich (talk) 03:02, 25 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete per Pichpich and WP:NLIST. Clarityfiend (talk) 06:04, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per Muboshgu....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 12:07, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete there is no evidence that these form a group, and there is no evidence that any reliable source has ever though to think of these as a group. This is before we deal with the other problem that basically none of the people on the list are even notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:46, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete Per nom. Ridiculous. Deathlibrarian (talk) 02:38, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete Per nomination. The presence of this kind of list is bizarre. Spf121188 (talk) 20:59, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete as in nom and nom's comment above. yikes. -- asilvering (talk) 21:43, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. Absurd that this exists in the first place.Captain Jack Sparrow (talk) 11:34, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete, highly problematic page, no encyclopedic need for grouping the persons. Geschichte (talk) 14:15, 31 January 2022 (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.