Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Major League Baseball players from Quebec

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The result was redirect to List of Major League Baseball players from Canada. MBisanz ^talk 01:00, 18 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

List of Major League Baseball players from Quebec

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too fine a consideration for an article; no precedent for having article lists of major professional sports leagues players by sub-national jurisdictions Mayumashu (talk) 19:34, 10 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Quebec-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:19, 11 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Baseball-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:19, 11 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:19, 11 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Subject adequately covered by List of Major League Baseball players from Canada, no clear reason to split by province. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:27, 11 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not weighing in with an opinion, but I am sure the reason is their Frenchness.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 14:12, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per above. Spanneraol (talk) 23:24, 11 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect ~~Delete~~. This article lacks substantial content, and there is no reason to split this article from the parent article, List of Major League Baseball players from Canada. While the subject may be notable, that does not preclude us from incorporating the substance into a larger article. Existing article title may be left as a redirect in the closing administrator's discretion. Prior to deletion, someone should double-check to confirm that all notable listees are included in the parent article. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 13:40, 12 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

After reading the comments of AutomaticStrikeout and Hmich below, I am reminded that Wikipedia:Redirects are cheap, and I am changing my !vote to what I believe is the slightly better outcome in this AfD. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 15:19, 13 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to List of Major League Baseball players from Canada. AutomaticStrikeout 03:59, 13 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to the MLB players from Canada article. There is no reason for Quebec to be split off. --Hmich176 (talk) 12:03, 13 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Though the nomination seems likely to pass, my preference would be to keep the list and have it included in the main Canada list by way of 'transclusion' -- I hope that is the right term -- as I have seen with other such lists (though regretfully I cannot link to one as an example, as my memory fails me at this time). While I am a strong federalist, Quebec has been recognized by the Canadian Parliament as a distinct nation within Canada, and does enjoy a certain distinct status. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 21:27, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

According to the article on the status of Quebec, they haven't been recognized with any kind of official political special status. The House of Commons recognized that the Québécois form a nation, but there is a difference between the Province itself and the Québécois, no? --hmich176 21:36, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed it's a very nebulous thing. But as the lead to the Quebec article states, it is Canada's (and North America's) only predominantly French-speaking society and I so think we do have a basis for categorizing and listing Quebec distinctly, here. Anyway, if my transclusion fantasy is just that, a redirect as proposed above would allow us to categorize in any relevant Qc. cats, too. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 21:44, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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