Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/UEFA European Qualifiers

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The result was Restore disambiguation. which I have done. Star Mississippi 03:10, 25 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

UEFA European Qualifiers

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Effectively double with FIFA World Cup qualification and UEFA European Championship qualifying. The Banner talk 17:21, 17 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 17:24, 17 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Restore disambiguation The "UEFA European Qualifiers" is a branding name for commercial purposes, and should not be considered a singular competition. The article is almost entirely unsourced and violates WP:NOTSTATS and WP:NOR. This page has information on qualifying since 1934, when UEFA did not even exist. In addition, the European World Cup qualifiers are still counted as a FIFA competition, merging all this information together makes no sense. S.A. Julio (talk) 17:41, 17 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Restore disambiguation per above, as completely unsourced to start with. Kante4 (talk) 19:50, 17 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. S.A. Julio (talk) 01:16, 18 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Restore disambiguation as above. Giant Snowman 06:03, 18 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Restore disambiguation as above. Joseph2302 (talk) 07:45, 18 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

- If there is a strong consensus for deletion, so be it. My mistake may have been the focus on statistics rather than substance. Let me note however that stats are unsourced across multiple football articles, including FIFA World Cup qualification, UEFA European Championship qualifying (average points per game for every team - what is it if not OR???) or, for example, European Cup and UEFA Champions League records and statistics ("biggest disparity between group winner and runner-up", ratio of goals to appearances etc., oldest and youngest goalscorer - all without an external source). As regards the fact that we speak of two distinct tournaments - yes, we do, but this is precisely why I felt that such an article would be useful. The same teams, with the same players, compete in the same way every two years under different headings - but then from the point of view of sports (as opposed to formalities) it makes no sense to analyze the 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022 stats separately from the 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020 stats. As a matter of fact, I started to develop the page precisely after I wanted to find some combined stats and could not find them on Wikipedia. Please give it a thought. Ivan Volodin (talk) 09:05, 18 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Restore disambiguation Agree with the others, should the nav template be on this page? Govvy (talk) 09:36, 18 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Restore disambiguation per above. ArsenalGhanaPartey (talk) 15:26, 18 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Europe-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 18:50, 19 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
restore disambiguation per above Hhkohh (talk) 04:03, 21 May 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.