Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Major League Baseball players from Brazil

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The result was keep. there seems to be consensus DGG ( talk ) 23:29, 7 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

List of Major League Baseball players from Brazil[edit]

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Only three players. This article is not necessary. JDDJS (talk) 00:51, 31 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Baseball-related deletion discussions. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 15:48, 6 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete - Three entries is not a viable list topic, assuming the list topic even satisfies the notability criteria of WP:LISTN and WP:GNG. Convert topic to a category, and call it a day. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 16:58, 6 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - I'm surprised to find myself going this way, but here we are :) First of all, I'll say that I don't know of any policy/guideline that places a minimum number on stand-alone lists. If someone can point me in the direction of something that says otherwise, I'll certainly come back to !vote delete. What we do have is WP:NOPAGE and related guidelines about when something should be a stand-alone page or covered as part of another. In this case, I figured the latter was going to be the logical way to go, if it wasn't covered already. But I don't see a logical merge target. There's no obvious article and also no list of Major League Baseball players by nationality -- only a list of current players, which removes the historical significance that this kind of article can provide. As far as establishing notability for the list, that the country's first three players have recently joined the MLB has received significant press attention, including many sources that talk about them as a group (note that some of these only mention one or two from the current list because that was the whole list at the time of publication). See New York Times, FOX Sports, USA Today, The Star, Kansas City Star, MiLB.com, USA Today, Fox Sports, Reuters, Kansas City Star, Fox Sports, Orange county Register, Orange County Register... So there's precedent for this kind of article (see navbox), there are sources to satisfy WP:LISTN or even WP:GNG, and while a category does exist they aren't in competition. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 17:32, 6 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Due to what appears to be an increased scouting presence in Brazil, this list will probably grow a bit in the next couple years. Alex (talk) 22:36, 6 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- That sounds a lot like a crystall ball. JDDJS (talk) 04:48, 7 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  - Wikipedia has a lot of stupid rules. Alex (talk) 06:33, 7 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as conceivably keepable and improvable. SwisterTwister talk 03:36, 7 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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