Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of current AFL Women's team squads

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 Keep. — CactusWriter ^(talk) 02:36, 28 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

List of current AFL Women's team squads

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Non-encyclopedic content, falling somewhere between WP:INDISCRIMINATE and WP:DIRECTORY – a real-time simple list of names with no context and no scope to include any context or prose. Content is already included with context on club pages, club season pages, etc., and this article adds nothing. Aspirex (talk) 07:19, 21 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comment This article was most likely created based on List of current AFL team squads, an article which has been stable for 10+ years. If the women's page is deleted, the AFL one should be too. Flickerd (talk) 10:33, 21 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment Agree. I hadn't seen the men's squad page before, but I'd have bundled into a single deletion request if I had. Aspirex (talk) 12:53, 22 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, or at least Projectify. I know this is all WP:ITSUSEFUL, but I regularly use the men's page, both to view all squads on one page if I'm watching a game, but also to catch vandalism and new page creation via the related changes link. Much easier than adding >700 pages to my watchlist. And (moving onto WP:OTHERSTUFF) if you do delete this and then move onto the men's list, you better be prepared to keep going to List of current NRL team squads, List of current NBA Development League team rosters, List of current NBA team rosters, List of current AFC team rosters and List of current NFC team rosters, and probably more. It seems that it is a standard list for most major sports. The-Pope (talk) 16:33, 21 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep. I'm not a fan of lists. Normally I would suggest a category, but there are many AFLW players without WP articles, so they will not appear in categories. This is useful for WP development and to see all current players in one place – rather than lacking context, it actually provides context in conjunction with related articles. It is not an indiscriminate list, and all those listed are notable per WP:NAFL. Jack N. Stock (talk) 02:36, 22 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - compliments similar article for men's teams as well as those in other sports. Not sure why this article has been singled out. Makes sense to have an article grouping of teams, and I agree with the rationales put forward by Jack and The-Pope above -- Whats new?^(talk) 01:39, 23 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - This list compliments existing lists as stated above and is useful for locating the specific womens squads. -- Dane ^talk 02:44, 24 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Jacknstock and The-Pope. It's worth noting that the WAFL is a new professional league, so our coverage of it is going to be a work in progress. Nick-D (talk) 01:06, 25 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- AFLW; WAFL is Western Australian Football League. I'm guessing you're not from Western Australia! :-D Jack N. Stock (talk) 01:34, 25 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per The-Pope - this is a single member of a standard list type for sports. This league has only just had their first grand final. Even though it seems like it's too soon to be creating a list of the *current* team members (as opposed to squads of yore), that's partially what Wikipedia is - not paper. This list will help people search for these women, and will, in due course, help people write their biographies. --122.108.141.214 (talk) 05:41, 27 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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