Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Progression of Australia association football goalscoring record

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The result was speedy keep. Per WP:SPEEDYKEEP#1. The nominator has withdrawn their nomination and there are no other arguments for deletion. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 14:33, 10 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Progression of Australia association football goalscoring record[edit]

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As per consensus established in this AfD. The concerns around WP:LISTN persist with all of these articles. There are issues with WP:NOTSTATS as well and we need to be more than simply a mirror of RSSSF and IFFHS.

@Fenix down: or @Malcolmxl5: please kindly speedy close as withdraw so that these can go in separate AfDs as each have (potentially) different merits and faults Spiderone 14:18, 10 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep- this is not similar to the prior AFD referred to (cannot say I am overly familiar with Saarland). I can only speak to Australia, but the topic of who is the nation’s leading goal scorer is the topic of significant media attention - and changes in the progression attract attention - as the references in that article show. Happy to link to various media on this if desirable but for mine this is notable in Australia at least and it wouldn’t surprise me if the same was true in many of the other lists nominated here, particularly England. Macosal (talk) 12:31, 10 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. I can't speak for all of these national teams, but the national team's all-time leading goalscorer is a notable topic in the UK (England and Scotland in this case). There was loads of coverage when Wayne Rooney broke the England record [1] and, thinking further back, when Gary Lineker missed a penalty that would have equalled the record [2]. There hasn't been much coverage of the Scotland record recently because we've been rubbish and nobody's got near the record! But when Kenny Dalglish equalled Denis Law's record (30 goals) that was widely reported, and has been covered retrospectively as well. In fact, Dalglish has described the goal that equalled that record the favourite of his whole career in both club and international play [3]. WP:NTEMP. Jmorrison230582 (talk) 13:58, 10 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom and last AFD, these kind of articles are not needed. Giant Snowman 14:04, 10 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Proceedural keep - on reflection, this kind of bundling is entirely inappropriate as each article needs discussing separately. I think, however, that these kind of articles should be merged with England national football team records etc. Giant Snowman 14:11, 10 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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