Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Lanka Premier League captains

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 No consensus, continue with the ongoing merge discussion. Although the delete !votes were more numerous, only one was based in policy or guideline. The nomination is empty, another !vote supports deletion because cricket fans are allegedly to stubborn to merge – a position which violates WP:ATD-M, while a third !vote recommends waiting a few years, which is a sensible position, but which doesn't deal with the notability and sources of the actual article in question.

The remaining delete vote says that notability is not met. While the sourcing is below that of analogous articles (e.g. List of current NHL captains and alternate captains, a featured article, has. source for each person being named captain), the ESPN Cricinfo source shows that games played as captain is a stat that they actively track. I couldn't find any such comprehensive tracking from a quick search for an similar stat tracker for the NHL. The keep !vote notes that the analogous Bangladeshi list has a similar level of sourcing and was accepted as a Featured List.

The point of distinguishment is that thee Lanka Premier League has only run for one season so far, though sources point to a likely second season. If the second season does not occur, there definitely exists consensus here to merge this article somewhere. I'm hesitant to close as merge even though the nominator, two delete !voters, and the redirect/merge !voter endorsed that option. Only the last !voter specified a merger target, while the ongoing merge discussion has two potential merger targets. Discussing the content and destination of any mergers are best done at the ongoing merge discussion. -- Patar knight - ^chat/_{contributions} 16:59, 28 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

List of Lanka Premier League captains

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GenQuest ^"scribble" 19:07, 9 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I have also nominated the following related pages because of the same; please indicate a preference at these discussions GenQuest ^"scribble" 05:41, 19 January 2021 (UTC):[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. GenQuest ^"scribble" 19:07, 9 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 20:16, 9 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Cricket-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 20:17, 9 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sri Lanka-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 20:17, 9 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep A featured list with a similar content exists List of Bangladesh Premier League captains which also contains same type of information. Empire AS ^Talk! 19:18, 9 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Article already being discussed for merging. No need of this AfD. Human (talk) 22:29, 9 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete If the cricket fans won't allow merger, deletion is the only answer.--Obi2canibe (talk) 18:14, 10 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Merging is an option that I could support also. GenQuest ^"scribble" 07:02, 21 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete or merge You can not bring up an article on Wikipedia as a reason to keep another article of similar content. Notability is not inherited from subject to subject simply because they are similar. We can only look at the article that is presented within a vacuum. The subject itself does not meet our notability requirement as laid in WP:N. The subject itself does not receive SIGCOV in reliable sources. You can merge this into a Season or League article if one is appropriately provided but seeing as those articles themselves may not meet the notability guideline it may need to be deleted entirely. --ARoseWolf (Talk) 14:44, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete At best, we should be waiting a few years ot create an historical list. Nigej (talk) 16:23, 14 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Relisting to align with the other ones, a wider consensus re this articles will likely form.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Daniel (talk) 03:57, 21 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comment These sources confirm the next season to be held in July 2021. [1] [2] [3] Empire AS ^Talk! 11:51, 22 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect with a merge to 2020 Lanka Premier League. It's far, far too early to have this article yet. I suppose that if people insist it could be re-created at some later point if the league ever plays a second season - note that this is by no means guaranteed at this point given the history of these sorts of leagues. Blue Square Thing (talk) 11:18, 23 January 2021 (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.