Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of footballers (Gaelic football)

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The result was No consensus. Cbrown1023 23:37, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List of footballers (Gaelic football)[edit]

A very undefined list that really is to vague to serve any use Gnevin 00:34, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. This is marginally useful list-cruft, and if I had my way it'd be deleted. Unfortunately there is a great deal of precedent for this type of list on the enWiki. List_of_football_players is just the tip of one of many icebergs in that particular ocean. A Train ^{take the} 02:04, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Let's be bold, and not be governed by precendent. That's what I'm doing in my opinion ( below ). WMMartin 17:43, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Keep Although I can see the possible benefits of the list, I am afraid that its title might make it too inclusive and that might eventually result in a list too long to be useful. Perhaps it would be better to rename it to something like List of famous footballers (Gaelic football). TSO1D 02:37, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Category:Gaelic footballers seems enough, I can't really see how the benefits of a list outweigh the benefits of a category in this case. I'm open to persuasion on that point. riana_dzasta 08:44, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per WP:LIST please knock off the can be replaced by categories nonsense. WilyD 16:27, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment This list could basicly consist of the entire panel/squad of the major inter county teams every year its too vague it could be made into huge list without anyway to limit it (Gnevin 16:47, 14 December 2006 (UTC))[reply]
delete Even if this list was restricted to just county players, it would contain:
32 counties * 25 players per panel * 125 years of GAA / 5 years average career length
would give a completed article of 20,000 players!
If you take worst case, based on this article's title, the article would require ~80% of all Irish males to have lived in the past century to be included. far to unwieldy to be of use to anyone! Fasach Nua 18:08, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. We are not a repository for lists, and appropriate categories already exist. WMMartin 17:43, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Per WP:LIST, it's hard to see how this potentially vast list could effectively meet any of the three purposes for a list. I can see productive use as a category, which already exists, per riana_dzasta above. --Krich (talk) 23:17, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Weak move If it were a list of 'major' gaelic footballers then that would stop it getting out of hand. However, there'd need to be a good definition of 'major.' --Eamonnca1 23:44, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Delete redundant to category which covers the topic better. Eluchil404 08:36, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Wily D, excluding the replaced by categories part. Sometimes that works, but not here. Just H 20:43, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.