Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Pakistani field hockey players

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The result was no consensus. MBisanz ^talk 00:32, 18 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

List of Pakistani field hockey players

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Unsourced and mistitled. This is not a list of Pakistani field hockey players worldwide, it is a list of players for the Pakistani national field hockey team. It is also unsourced, and both the ELs (now removed) are dead. The notable players have articles and are listed in Pakistan Hockey Federation, and the rest can't even be substantiated. MSJapan (talk) 01:22, 28 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep i'hv checked & update this list earlier. the main source on the web of this article was the official web page of Pakistan Hockey Federation somehow the site is down now may be due to some technical reasons..... but its a official web site & also the main source of many other articles related to Pakistan field Hockey i think we need to wait for it. i guess this article need to improve & also need some good sources only rather than deletion. puting the tag of AfD is not a solution. anyway i'hv added 2 more ref. & i'hv returnd the official web page link also. & yeah the title should be more specific like "List of Pakistan's Internetional Field Hockey Players" etc... Keep or Merge it with Pakistan Hockey Federation or other related article. Peace Out — Preceding unsigned comment added by Crown Prince (talk • contribs) 09:28, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 19:04, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Endless, useless list of "players" segregated for no other reason than supposed place of birth/national origin/locale theoretically played. Invites endless lists of "Vegetarian field hockey players", "Field hockey players from the Bronx with nipple piercings", "Exploding Whales who once played field hockey", etc, etc.. Sources appear to be just lists themselves and fail WP:SOURCES, with Pakistan_Hockey_Federation linking back to Wikipedia itself Ren99 wha? 00:32, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That analogy doesn't hold. Sportspeople are routinely classified by their nationality, but not by their dietary habits or body ornamentation, or even by a combination of biological order and mode of destruction. Phil Bridger (talk) 09:55, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Post some links to proof of citizenship so there's something to attest to (passport or birth certificate should do ok, otherwise everything pretty much links back to Wikipedia - aka - here and is of little value for sourcing). I got a dozen Aleutian Exploding Whales & Globsters wanna get in on the lists before there's a rush for the goal line... Ren99 wha? 18:45, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - This needs a rename as these are limited to members of the national team. Each should, I presume, qualify individually under notability guidelines, making this a useful navigational device and marker for future articles to be created. Carrite (talk) 01:06, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —Theopolisme (talk) 13:59, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Come on, people, we are talking about the Pakistan team here. Seriously, WP needs to be careful, as an international encyclopedia, to avoid overt cultural bias, and maintain consistency in its guidelines. The criteria for notability in other sports is much lower than this, so we can assume notability and it is a valid and relevant list. --AJHingston (talk) 17:31, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Delete, this list has no encyclopedic value, a category suffices, its content is not easily verifiable, it is full of red links, even though this doesnt prove notability. Eduemoni ^↑talk↓ 23:16, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note - Someone above said that the only source is down, how funny it is, in wikipedia we need a multitude of source to back the facts that are told in the actual article. If not so, someone needs to archive the sources to prevent such issues, but even though the notability factor is ridiculously limited in here because there is no way to verify it as there is no third party coverage for the names in this list. Eduemoni ^↑talk↓ 23:20, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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