Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Bangladeshi cricketers

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result of the debate was keep. —Cleared as filed. 05:17, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of Bangladeshi cricketers

Duplication. Superseded by List of Bangladeshi Test cricketers and List of Bangladeshi ODI cricketers which have more detail and which is de-facto standard for other cricket player lists by country. See List of cricket topics#Test for list of other like lists. Delete -- Ian ≡ talk 16:20, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Category:Bangladeshi cricketers is more complete. Perhaps we should replace this list with a direct link to the Category page (can we do that by way of redirect?}jguk 17:26, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Redirects shouldn't cross namespace, and I'm not certain that redirects to categories work anyway. Thryduulf 21:39, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

I've just checked, redirects across namespaces do work - see User:Jguk/sandbox. BAsed on this, I recommend a redirect, jguk 21:49, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Or we could make a disambiguation page for the two lists mentioned by the nom. Punkmorten 21:35, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

• Make a disambig between the ODI and Test cricketers lists. Thryduulf 21:39, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect to the category. Pavel Vozenilek 05:48, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Changed opinion - disambig page looks as a better option. The same for other lists bellow. Pavel Vozenilek 05:49, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

• It's not actually correct to say it's been superseded. Most Bangladeshi cricketers have played neither Test nor ODI cricket, jguk 09:43, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Not most. a quick count (and I'm sure there'd be a few more which I missed because of name spelling variations) showed 27 out of 35 on the list were also in the ODI or Test cricketers lists. m -- Ian ≡ talk 12:05, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
    • By most I meant most Bangladeshi cricketers that we'd consider notable enough for an article, not just those for whom we currently have an article, jguk 10:41, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and reorganise. Not all notable cricketers have played for their country. Choalbaton 15:17, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

• And those are best served by the category. I think making into a disambiguation page is best, with Test cricketers, ODI cricketers, and the category - that should cover everything. Redirects across namespaces are confusing, and usually discouraged, I think (though at least it's better than redirecting to the WP: namespace...). Sam Vimes 23:52, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

• Keep but limit to cricketers who are not in the other two lists (with links to them). Lists and categories are not mutually exclusive. You can have a lot of red links in a list, and you can organize the people by position, for example. howcheng {chat} 06:52, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

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.