Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/United States men's national water polo team statistics (birthplaces)


 * 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. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい ) 17:27, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

United States men's national water polo team statistics (birthplaces)

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Bundled: the following pages in the "United States men's Olympic water polo team statistics" series — colleges • age records • heights and weights.

Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Per WP:IINFO#3, excessively detailed statistics are not suitable for Wikipedia.

In particular it says "articles with statistics should include explanatory text providing context", but there is no context here. There are no reliable secondary sources discussing and providing professional analyses of (in prose) the U.S. men's national water polo team for the Olympics with respect to their college (etc.), at least not that I can see. The level of detail here is simply way too high for a topic which isn't an exceptional case that has been well-studied.

This content comes entirely from usawaterpolo.org and sports-reference.com, dedicated statistics websites which already serve any purpose that this article could. Unfortunately, this content just isn't right for Wikipedia. If the user who created these articles feels that there's a real gap in these stats websites' layout or searchability, then they might be interested in creating a Wikia wiki or their own website. — Bilorv ( talk ) 17:25, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. — Bilorv ( talk ) 17:30, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. — Bilorv ( talk ) 17:30, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. — Bilorv ( talk ) 17:30, 5 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete. WP:NOTSTATS and WP:NOTINDISCRIMINATE. Ajf773 (talk) 20:30, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. Nobody (outside the odd water polo superfan) cares where they were born, what college they went to, what their hair color is, whether they've had their appendix removed, or what their sibling order is. Trivia, all trivia. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:13, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete WP:NOTSTATS.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 07:03, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete Why do these lists even exist? lmao KingSkyLord (Talk page &#124; Contributions) 14:56, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
 * this is unnecessarily disrespectful. — Bilorv ( talk ) 19:21, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete all I normally am not prone to adding a pile on vote when the outcome is so obvious. I'm doing so here because a considerable amount of work went into these articles, and I'm willing to consider the possibility that there's some standard of article type that is being met. There are certainly stranger things on Wikipedia. I've looked around trying to find other examples in other sports, but have come up empty. So, I'm left curious; ; What motivated you to do so? Is there a precedent somewhere? --Hammersoft (talk) 15:48, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete I have read WP:IINFO and WP:NOTSTATS. I accept. — Phikia (talk) 05:01, 10 September 2019 (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.