Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Indian Premier League umpires

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The result was delete‎. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 15:02, 25 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

List of Indian Premier League umpires[edit]

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WP:INDISCRIMINATE, WP:NOTSTATS, WP:NOTDIRECTORY and fails WP:NLIST. Umpiring in the IPL is routine for the profession; nothing remarkable; no significant coverage of this list. I completely agree, scoring a 100, taking 5-for or even getting selected to play in a premier tournament like IPL is a significant achievement, all these having articles make sense. But what is the credit of umpires here? Umpiring is a normal profession, simply an appointment. If you have a look at the list, there seems to be many non-notable persons umpiring in IPL. All the sources are just database or stat-based about how many umpired who who umpired. Couldn't find sources which discuss about the subject in a group. Yes, umpiring in 50 or 100 IPL matches might have some coverage, but that's enough to be included in the biography of that umpire. I know it's a featured list- but still challenging. Robo^Cric Let's chat 14:45, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Lists of people, Cricket, Lists, and India. Robo^Cric Let's chat 14:45, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 16:38, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 20:44, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete NOTDATABASE. AryKun (talk) 14:30, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Per nom. Certainly fails the number of policies/guidelines nom has suggested. I don't think there's a suitable redirect here to the parent article either as there is no mention of umpiring in it. Rugbyfan22 (talk) 20:08, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:NOTDIRECTORY, no encyclopedic value, and isn't significant coverage of the IPL umpires in sources. Joseph2302 (talk) 16:47, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom and WP:NOTDIRECTORY.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 22:28, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. But isn't this list serving a useful navigational function per WP:LISTPURP-NAV? Rupples (talk) 08:16, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
You could just make a category for IPL umps instead. The list doesn't have any RS that cover the group as a whole, besides ESPN's database that store basically every form of trivia imaginable. AryKun (talk) 08:30, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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