Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of sports writers

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The result was keep (non-admin closure) Valoem ^talk ^contrib 15:51, 22 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

List of sports writers

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A few issues: first, Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information, second, this list is wholly inadequate and almost impossible to keep accurate as a) few papers of which I am aware list their sportswriters, making this a massive verifiability issue, as the only way we would be able to tell is when they last published something, and in all honesty, who is going to go through this list on a regular basis to keep it accurate checking to see that every writer is still with the paper. Moreover, there are dead people on this list (at least one listed as a "current sportswriter" that I found), and I am sure there are more. To summarize, this should be deleted due to WP:INDISCRIMINATE, WP:V, and frankly even WP:GNG - few on this list are notable, and the ones that are have their own articles. Go Phightins! 18:19, 15 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep WP:INDISCRIMINATE points to specific types of content such lyrics or statistics. It is not to be used in the manner of WP:IDONTLIKEIT. There are many notable and famous sports writers such as Grantland Rice, Paul Gallico and Neville Cardus. It is therefore sensible that we have some list(s) of these for readers to browse and use for navigation and indexing. Per WP:CLN, lists are suitable for this purpose. Any difficulties should be addressed by ordinary editing per WP:PRESERVE. Andrew (talk) 23:22, 15 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have no objection to a category, however this list is almost impossible to manage; there is no "notability threshold" for those listed, it is just a random list of various sportswriters. A category more than suits the need for this. Go Phightins! 23:44, 15 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:47, 16 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep A notable topic with clear inclusion criteria. The category-only arguement fails WP:CLN. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 07:01, 16 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, certainly most educational and encyclopedic. — Cirt (talk) 18:07, 16 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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