Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Irish Footballers Playing Abroad

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The result was delete. (ESkog)(Talk) 13:40, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Irish Footballers Playing Abroad

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Seems like an indiscriminate and pointless list to me. Criteria for inclusion are foggy at best, and could potentially include anyone from Ireland playing any grade or quality of football. Lankiveil 12:35, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete yet another indiscriminate list that has no sources listed. Also, no context to the article or explanation for inclusion. --Cyrus Andiron 12:54, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
  • This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of football (soccer) related deletions. ChrisTheDude 13:39, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete pointless list, and not even kept up-to-date, it's been several months since Darren Randolph's loan spell at Gillingham ended.... ChrisTheDude 13:41, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete, fancruft. Punkmorten 15:24, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Do not Delete, I made it, spent a lot of time on it, and I know quite a few people who use it when trying to see how Irish people did over the weekend. Honestly, what harm can this article do? theworm2345 16:42, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
    • Well for one thing it contains incorrect/misleading information, such as the reference to Darren Randolph being on loan at Gillingham, which is seven months out of date ChrisTheDude 16:14, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete - there are 212 countries in the world, are we going to have a similar piece of listcruft for all of them? - iridescenti (talk to me!) 17:26, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Do not Delete- Don't delete it, but make it into a category rather than an article.DmanDmythDledge 17:54, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Sorry but it is a pointless list, as per iridescenti above. Plus it is fair enough having done a lot of work originally on the article, but it has not been kept up to date. Also, a very quick glance brought up two players who should not even be listed. The category states it is a list of "Irish players playing abroad". Paul Tierney who plays for Blackpool F.C. was born in Salford, England. He is listed as being an English born Irish footballer, but he can hardly be classed as "playing abroad", considering that he was born, brought up in, and lived all his life in the UK. The same with another Blackpool player, Ben Burgess for exactly the same reasons. In addition, Gareth Farrelly is included as playing for Blackpool, yet he now plays for Cork City in Ireland. And that is just looking at one club. Should the consensue end up being to keep, then a lot more work needs to be done on it to ensure the information is 100% correct. ♦Tangerines BFC ♦·Talk 20:02, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Comment- Wait a second, many footballer's pages are not up to the second (with caps and goals), and those are fine, as long as they have the little thing about when it was updated at the bottom. Couldn't we just do that with this? (write at the top, "Correct as of") theworm2345 17:10, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Talk 20:02, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

  • Comment- Sorry, should've used comment theworm2345 5:52, 17 April 2007 (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.