Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bandy World Championship 2009 squad lists

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The result was no consensus. MBisanz ^talk 02:57, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bandy World Championship 2009 squad lists[edit]

Delete as indiscriminate information Mayalld (talk) 10:20, 23 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment. I fail to see what's indiscriminate about this. We have lots of lists of players on national sports squads, and this one has well defined inclusion criteria. Powers ^T 14:46, 23 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:LC items 2, 4, and 10. Stifle (talk) 17:06, 23 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Original research and unverifiable? How so? Powers ^T 18:26, 23 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: All players are confirmed to play in the World Chpionchips. A lot of these players are professional athletes, well known to Swedes, Finns an Russian a like. Durator (talk) 23:29, 23 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, as Stifle says, no-one cares about Bandy, whatever it is, except maybe in some random Baltic countries which don't count. Therefore it is non-notable. There are also no inline citations so it is unverifiable and original research. Benefix (talk) 22:09, 24 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep To me it's no less notable than a list of football players - American or the real thing. Bandy being non-notable for the countries it's played in? Shame on you. This is the English Language Wikipedia, not the American Wikipedia. To us in the UK and Europe, American football is non-notable. No-one much plays it seriously outside the USA, do they? Same with basketball. Geographic locations are not a measure of notability. But shock! horror! There's a squad in there from a non-notable Baltic state called the United States... Peridon (talk) 22:21, 24 January 2009 (UTC) Peridon has never bandied, and was dropped (to his great pleasure) from several school sports.[reply]

Here's a link to one team that a player came from for that non-notable squad: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Blades Peridon (talk) 22:25, 24 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Shouldn't all these lists be taken together to save time? If 2009 is kept and 2007 is deleted, we might look a bit silly as well. Peridon (talk) 22:30, 24 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Bandy is a well-supported sport in the Nordic countries and Russia. On a global scale it's not as notable as association football, but comes reasonably close to American football or rugby. As Peridon says this is not an encyclopedia about only the anglosphere. Phil Bridger (talk) 23:11, 24 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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