Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/San Francisco Giants minor league players


 * 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. Wizardman 15:00, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

San Francisco Giants minor league players

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To qualify for this page, a player must pass GNG. If they pass GNG, then they qualify for a standalone article. That makes this page unnecessary and redundant. Alex (talk) 06:15, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Speedy Keep. Nominators rationale makes no sense and is his trying to make a point after he tried to add minor players to these pages and was reverted. A list page has different notability requirements than an article. These articles are about the farm system, a notable subject and contain the entire rosters. The article is well sourced and "unnecessary and redundant" is not a proper rationale for deletion. Spanneraol (talk) 06:19, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete This is explicitly a compendium of half-baked BLPs. They are "select" but this selection seems to be done by Wikipedia editors rather than independent reliable sources.   If the players are notable they should have proper, enduring articles rather than this directory-style ephemera.  Our BLP requirements are quite strict and so should not be fudged in this way.  Note that I'm probably going to repeat this rationale in all the other similar discussions (which should have been done together as a group).  I'll do that later as it will be quite a chore - the sort of tedious activity which has killed AFD. Andrew (talk) 07:25, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
 * The list actually includes every player in the teams minor league system by virtue of the roster templates. Even if those are the only things included in these articles, these articles should be kept. They are currently the only place on the internet that you can see the whole farm system on one page. Also useful for easy editing/updating of those templates. The fact that all these afds were done separately is proof that these afds were started in an attempt to be disruptive by an editor that has done that sort of thing before. Spanneraol (talk) 14:37, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Baseball-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica1000 08:01, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
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 * Keep as valid list per wikipedia policies. VMS Mosaic (talk) 13:33, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep Alex is being WP:POINTy and I've already WP:TROUTed him. We have a long standing consensus on how to do this that he doesn't seem to comprehend, and now he's wasting our time and resources on this farce. – Muboshgu (talk) 15:20, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep per above -Xcuref1endx (talk) 19:34, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep - The listed minor league baseball players are those who have been determined to be of some measure of notability under the general notability guidelines per WP:GNG, but WP:BASEBALL and the larger community believe would be better served by inclusion in an "incubator" list article such as this one. The Wikipedia community, WP:BASEBALL, and/or the participants in this AfD may "conclude that the topic actually should not have a stand-alone article," and that the subject matter may be better covered as part of another article per GNG.  This is just such a case, and well supported by the long-standing consensus of WP:BASEBALL, and several years of consistent AfD outcomes: KEEP.  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 21:45, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep and trout per Muboshgu, Spanneraol, Dirtlawyer and Mosaic. Rlendog (talk) 23:47, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep on a WP:POINTy nomination, per Dirtlawyer1. Ejgreen77 (talk) 03:13, 6 November 2014 (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.