Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Israeli footballers playing overseas

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The result was delete. MBisanz ^talk 19:29, 27 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

List of Israeli footballers playing overseas[edit]

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Contested PROD - original rationale of "Non-notable list which fails WP:OR; consensus for deletion exists in this September 2011 AfD" was removed with comment of "This qualifies for wikipedia's top-tier football league list. If lower level leagues will be added, we will Talk about deleting this list." The original concerns stand - the topic is non-notable, there is no evidence that the subject of Israeli footballers playing overseas has ever received significant coverage. Giant Snowman 13:28, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Giant Snowman 13:29, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete. It took me some time to reach this conclusion, after all, the article has good references. However it seems to me that this list, as an intesection, has no notability. It is on the basis that the intersection between Israeli and footballer and playing overseas that is not notable that I have reached this conclusion. The footballers' nationality and their playing location is available in their individual articles. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 14:47, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Israeli expatriate footballers also more than suffices. Giant Snowman 14:52, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Normally I see no difficulty with a list and a category providing twin entry points to the information. I will normally argue against the deletion of either. But this intersection is not notable (the criterion for a list) whereas it is most definitely interesting (a decent justification for a category). The list is also extraordinarily hard to maintain as a current list because of the complexity of the intersection and the fluidity of the players' movements. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 15:29, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete – no indication this topic is notable as an intersection. As has been pointed out the category provides an adequate way of grouping and navigation, whereas this list doesn't. C 679 16:54, 27 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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