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Template:Vanderbilt Commodores football captains navbox

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the template below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the template's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the discussion was delete Plastikspork ―Œ (talk) 23:23, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Vanderbilt Commodores football captains navbox

There are multiple problems with this template. Starting with the WP:NAVBOX guidelines, there is no stand-alone article or list to support the subject of the navbox, i.e., Vanderbilt Commodores football team captains. Second, navboxes exist to navigate between existing content; this navbox has approximately 228 total links, of which approximately 176 (77%) are red links to nowhere. Third, there is the notability issue: are Vanderbilt football team captains notable as a class -- and a related problem, is being a team captain an honor or award significant enough to merit a navbox? And, finally, the navbox in question is unwieldy and poorly organized given its large number of links. Verdict: DELETE. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 18:43, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Jweiss11 (talk) 14:46, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, also no sources given. - BilCat (talk) 22:32, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Normally, transcluded navboxes do not contain sourced footnotes, but I have seen navbox view pages that included notes with sources. The usual way to source a navbox would be to have a fully sourced article or list that supports the navbox.  This navbox, as noted above, has no stand-alone list or article to support it.  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 10:21, 18 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete as navbox cruft. Most of these players will never pass notability guidelines and the point of a navbox is for inter-article navigation. Jrcla2 (talk) 13:56, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete same reasons as everyone else.--Yankees10 16:56, 19 August 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 template's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.