Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates/List of top-division football clubs in UEFA countries/archive2


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured list removal nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was removed by Giants2008 19:30, 20 January 2013.

List of top-division football clubs in UEFA countries

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With reluctance, I have to concede defeat on this one. The level of maintenance required to keep this list up-to-date is far higher than I can commit to; a lot of the tables have not been updated since I took on the previous FLRC more than two years ago. Given the nature of the list I strongly believe that each country should have an up-to-date paragraph, because it would be impossible to adequately cover the topic in a lead alone. 28 countries do not have a paragraph at all, and most of the remaining ones are significantly outdated. Now that the RSSSF is winding down, I haven't even mentioned the referencing work that would be requiried in bringing this up to 2013 standards. The raw ingredients are there if someone is willing to take this on, and the emergence of Wikidata may help with maintaining the tables in future, but keeping this featured would nonetheless be a massive undertaking. —WFC— FL wishlist 07:27, 28 December 2012 (UTC)


 * I think that most of the updating work would be simplified if the tables were actually transcluded from subpages, since most of those subpages are probably followed by editors from those countries. Nergaal (talk) 09:20, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Phase two of Wikidata should eliminate the need for subpages (there would be no point in creating subpages for content which will be updated externally). Given that Wikidata should become fit for purpose in 2013, if updates to the tables were the primary issue, I'd probably have sat on my hands until then. The biggest part of the challenge is with getting the prose done and the referencing up to date, in my opinion. —WFC— FL wishlist 13:03, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
 * No sure what is the wikidata supposed to do, but I was thinking of transcuding the tables from the List of football clubs from country X subpages. Nergaal (talk) 05:24, 31 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Delist – A good number of the countries' listings are outdated, meaning that the list no longer meets FL criteria. A shame, because it received a lot of quality work that led to it being kept at the last FLRC. Giants2008  ( Talk ) 00:08, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Delist too much work that needs to be done for it to meet the criteria and no one willing to do it. NapHit (talk) 07:38, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Delist a really good list and one with the finest intentions but one that appears to be a nightmare for upkeep purposes. Sorry. The Rambling Man (talk) 17:30, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
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