Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of UK number 1 men's tennis players (2nd nomination)

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 was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. Star Mississippi 01:15, 13 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

List of UK number 1 men's tennis players[edit]

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Per WP:Notability and WP:NLIST. No significant coverage for this list to warrant its own article. ForzaUV (talk) 18:10, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Lists of people and Tennis. Shellwood (talk) 18:17, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nominator. Interesting enough this was nominated a week ago, then withdrawn by the nominator after one user voted to keep based on WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. The right thing would have been to let the discussion run its course but at least somebody else has picked up on this. This is an indiscriminate collection of stats and the sourcing is loosely based on player profiles rather than actual rankings. Ajf773 (talk) 00:33, 6 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Comment While the UK number 1 is covered fairly regularly by the British press [1][2][3][4], the articles don't tend to be focused on the chronology of the ranking but on whichever player happens to hold the No. 1 spot at the time. How that meshes with WP:NLIST I'm not sure. Letcord (talk) 02:13, 6 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom and Ajf773. I was the original nominator. I apologise for the premature speedy keep, I did not think my original reasoning would have been applicable had I improved the article to include more than a short list of men's singles players, and perhaps include double and women players (rather than because one other person voted keep). However after spending some time making a list of singles and doubles British number 1 players I don't think the article can pass WP:NOTSTATS, it involves scraping data from old rankings (which are not always accurate) and obscure, outdated fan websites. Bonoahx (talk) 10:02, 6 April 2022 (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.