Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Past Sarawak FA players


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The result was   delete. X clamation point  22:56, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Past Sarawak FA players

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Little encyclopedic use, it's not normal use to have such an extra article for sports clubs and finally there's an identic section in the main article. DavidDCM (talk) 18:28, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. The article needs some serious wikifying and reformatting, but the team is part of a notable league so the article should be kept. And there is precedent for this kind of sports article, see New York Yankees all-time roster. --Amwestover (talk|contrib) 18:35, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect to main article. There is precedent to split off sections to subarticles if doing so means saving space. The main article is short enough that such a split is not necessary.- Mgm|(talk) 19:02, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Nonnotable list. A link to the roster from the main article is fine enough. Themfromspace (talk) 19:41, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football related deletions. ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:31, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - Contrary to what the nom states, there is plenty of precedent for such lists, many of which are in fact Featured Lists (eg List of Ipswich Town F.C. players, List of York City F.C. players, List of Aston Villa F.C. players). However, this list, while purporting to be an "all-time roster", is just a random selection of a few names (I would venture to suggest that a club in existence for 34 years has used more than 46 players in that time), with none of the expected additional info on number of appearances/goals or even what era the players played in, so it is of no real encyclopedic use -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 12:28, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - while, as ChrisTheDude rightly points out, there is precedent for football teams to have seperate articles about players, this list is unsourced, and doesn't provide any additional information that could be covered in a category. GiantSnowman 12:18, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete I have to agree with the pointers and I see no articles for any of those players which pretty much says non-notably in its self. Govvy (talk) 13:49, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - Per GiantSnowman's comments. Hubschrauber729 (talk) 03:31, 27 November 2008 (UTC)


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