Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Foreign Sports Talent Scheme Athletes

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The result was no consensus. Black Kite (talk) 12:09, 2 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

List of Foreign Sports Talent Scheme Athletes

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This list is not notable; the information it contains, can be put in the article instead of a list. SyG (talk) 15:23, 9 June 2012 (UTC) SyG (talk) 15:23, 9 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Do you mean that this should be merged to Foreign Sports Talent Scheme? Per WP:ATD, that's not something for which you should have started this discussion, but you should have instead tried it through normal editing. And it's not a question of whether the "list" itself is notable, as the list is just a format of presenting information, but instead purely a question of whether listing these athletes is part of the encyclopedic coverage of the main topic, and if so then it's a size question of whether the list is too large to be kept in the main article or should be split off. postdlf (talk) 13:55, 10 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. I created the list and as per postdlf's comment, it was split off from the original article Foreign Sports Talent Scheme which I felt better off in its own list, rather than on the original article. Original article before the split here [1] which make the article a bit lengthy and unwieldy and now with added content, it will look very long... --Xaiver0510 (talk) 15:02, 11 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Merge back to Foreign Sports Talent Scheme. The topic is clearly notable, but the list in its current form does not give an impression of notability. Neither article is particularly long, so the combination won't be particularly long or unwieldy by Wikipedia standards. However, in the combined article the list could be made to seem more of a "natural" part of the article by breaking it into shorter lists and embedding them in subsections of the article. For example, the football list could be appended at the end of Foreign Sports Talent Scheme#Football. --Orlady (talk) 11:44, 15 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:02, 16 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Per Orlady's comment, I created a subpage for reference on her suggestion. Subpage is here for comparison. Thanks! --Xaiver0510 (talk) 08:54, 18 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, →TSU ^tp* 14:46, 23 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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