Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NBA league average height, weight, age and playing experience

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The result was delete --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:23, 19 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

NBA league average height, weight, age and playing experience

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This is trivial in nature and fails GNG and NBASKET. I would not be opposed for the article's creator to house this in a user subpage, but this should not be in mainspace. Jrcla2 (talk) 15:59, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Basketball-related deletion discussions. Jrcla2 (talk) 16:02, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete. This is just a relisting of charts found on the NBA web site. Also, the NBA apparently stopped publishing these tables in 2007, so it's unlikely that the article could ever be brought up to date, at least not without an editor doing their own research and calculations. NewYorkActuary (talk) 18:58, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently the NBA still calculates this data and names a "Mr. Average" in connection with its annual roster survey, although the information is perhaps not as conveniently located online as before. See for example "Danny Green is NBA’s ‘Mr. Average’" (2014), "Why Evan Turner is the most average player in the NBA" (2015). --Arxiloxos (talk) 20:57, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

My recommendation was based on an assumption that this list couldn't easily be maintained. Your searches convince me that I was wrong about that and I've stricken my recommendation. I do sympathize with the notion that this list is unencyclopedic trivia and might merit deletion for that reason alone. But as DirtLawyer points out below, there is a lot of this stuff spread out over the various sports subjects. Maybe it all does need to be cleaned up (i.e., deleted), but I'm not sure that AfD is the way to do it. I'm going to stay neutral on this one. NewYorkActuary (talk) 19:31, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete run of the mill trivia. Occasional blog citing NBA info doesn't constitute significant coverage.Nwlaw63 (talk) 22:13, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, WP:NOTSTAT should cover it. Since this list was created by a sockpuppet, it wouldn't help to house it in the creator's userspace. -- Tavix ^(talk) 00:09, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Not worth the effort to bring it up to date. The fluctuations in the table are generally pretty trivial; most people can't visualize the difference between 6'7.62" and 6'6.30". And even within a single season, different NBA publications may list different heights and weights for a single player, so who knows how accurate these numbers are, anyway. (I remember there was once a lot of kvetching over Jonas Valančiūnas' height/weight in his infobox, since the Raptors' official pre-game notes at one point contradicted the NBA.com player profile. Or something.) Zagalejo^^^
Delete - Non-notable list of trivia. Subject does not satisfy WP:GNG or WP:LISTN, with significant coverage of the specific list subject in multiple, independent, reliable, secondary sources. It also violates WP:NOTSTATS, with a long list of non-notable statistics, which are mostly unexplained with accompanying text. We really need a house-cleaning of similar lists throughout our sports subjects, as a well as a more logical and consistent basis for dealing with sports stats lists. Right now, our standard for sports stats list is a little too close to "I like it" and "I don't like it" to explain to anyone outside the sports projects. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 18:40, 13 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - per nom. Cubbie15fan (talk) 22:22, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above reasons. DaHuzyBru (talk) 18:53, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per NOTSTAT. ~EDDY ^{(talk/contribs)}~ 03:23, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per all of the above reasons. → Call me Razr Nation 05:59, 18 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above Fails WP:LISTN and WP:GNG.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 23:08, 18 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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