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

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. -- Patar knight - ^chat/_{contributions} 22:50, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

List of Major League Baseball players from Hong Kong[edit]

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I don't see any indication that reliable sources have written about "Major League Baseball players from Hong Kong" as a group; the article as written includes exactly one such person, and articles cited do not appear to show that there is much special attention given to that individual's origin.

Previously nominated for PROD by Steve Quinn with the justification Sources do not support the topic which is "List of MLB players from Hong Kong". Multiple reliable sources also do not support the only player "listed". There is only one questionable RS for the player listed. Perhaps this is a coatrack to give publicity to a marginal player that has a meager track record.. DePROD by the initial editor without justification.

I am also nominating for deletion List of Major League Baseball players from China, the only other article in the "Major League Baseball players by national origin" category that features only one individual, without significant attention from reliable sources. _signed,Rosguill ^talk 21:23, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. _signed,Rosguill ^talk 21:26, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. _signed,Rosguill ^talk 21:26, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Baseball-related deletion discussions. _signed,Rosguill ^talk 21:26, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of China-related deletion discussions. _signed,Rosguill ^talk 21:26, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Hong Kong-related deletion discussions. _signed,Rosguill ^talk 21:26, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete both One item does not a list make. Timmyshin (talk) 22:00, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete not enough evidence of notability (of the group in general) for a stand-alone list --DannyS712 (talk) 01:07, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete not enough items to warrant a stand-alone list. Capitals00 (talk) 06:51, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete both, for two reasons. 1.) Both of these lists currently contain only one single entry, and a list with only one entry is arguably not really a list at all. 2.) The name of these two lists are List of Major League Baseball players from Hong Kong and List of Major League Baseball players from China, however, both of the entries (Austin Brice and Harry Kingman) on these lists are actually Americans who were born overseas (Brice was born in Hong Kong while his father was working in construction there, and Kingman was born to missionary parents in China). That would be like creating an List of American football players from the Philippines and including Tim Tebow on it. Though they were born there, arguably neither Brice nor Kingman are actually "from" Hong Kong or China. Ejgreen77 (talk) 18:43, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete both, obviously. Might as well call them List of Major League Baseball players named Austin Brice/Harry Kingman. -Zanhe (talk) 08:26, 14 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I actually think that a potential List of American Major League Baseball players born outside the United States or something like that might be a valid topic for a list article. But, that's neither here nor there in terms of these particular articles. Ejgreen77 (talk) 21:06, 14 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete both, no reliable sources, Alex-h (talk) 22:23, 15 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete both of them as like a few people have said further up, one person doesn't make a list because you think of a list, it's like five or six people not one. Not Homura (talk) 04:50, 16 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per norm. Lapablo (talk) 22:10, 18 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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.