Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of association football players with 50 or more goals in a season

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The result was delete. postdlf (talk) 12:40, 19 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

List of association football players with 50 or more goals in a season[edit]

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No evidence that 50 goals in a season is a really notable achievement, the numbers in the table and the sources appear to be different as well. Fails WP:LISTN, should be merged/redirected to some relevant football list. Joseph2302 (talk) 22:13, 12 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with this,I dont think it is notable at all..because what makes 50 is a special number not 40 or 45 for an example ? and plus it seem lacks sources for sure . Adnan (talk) 23:09, 12 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. lavender|^{(formerly HMSSolent)}|lambast 00:17, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. lavender|^{(formerly HMSSolent)}|lambast 00:17, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Does not meet WP:GNG, the number 50 appears to be an arbitrary one (as stated above), a google search of the article title brings up nothing relevent. Indeeed, it brings up numerous sites which highlights the arbitrariness(?) and trivial nature of the number 50 eg.'Top 50 world players in the world for 2013-14', 'Best soccer players of all time - top 10', 'Top ten goalscorers in a single year', 'The List: The 50 best African players in history'. It might be good for a trivia night but is not encyclopedic.Coolabahapple (talk) 03:35, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Possibly rename List of association football players with the most goals in a season? That would answer the arbitrary 50 boundary. It should also be sorted by goals, not last name. Clarityfiend (talk) 11:53, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly, although that would need better definition, as the 2 sources seem to give different goalscoring tallies (I guess due to different counting criteria). Also, WP:NOTSTATS makes me think delete is maybe just better. I seem to remember some countries in Africa didn't used to count their goalscoring very officially, and so some players in those leagues actually got about 70-80 goals a season, but aren't on this list. Joseph2302 (talk) 12:01, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. ChrisTheDude (talk) 17:11, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - the title of the article is inherently misleading, as the content states that only players in a country's highest-level league are considered/included. I bet even if we exclude lowly amateur/semi-pro leagues there are dozens more players who scored 50+ goals in lower-level professional leagues.... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 17:14, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That was kind of my point above, this list only includes people who scored 50+ goals in a season in Europe or South America. Joseph2302 (talk) 17:28, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete - non-notable LISTCRUFT. Giant Snowman 14:34, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - violates WP:LISTCRUFT. – Michael (talk) 20:22, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - While fifty goals in football season is a relatively rare achievement, it does violate LISTCRUFT. Walter Görlitz (talk) 00:25, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nomination. Ashbeckjonathan (talk) 00:48, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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