The result was delete. Black Kite (t) (c) 23:36, 30 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I PRODed this article with the rationale "Non-notable per precedent at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/All-time English Football League 1st Division Table." The PROD was contested and replaced with a merge tag. I still think the article should be deleted as it is non-notable (no significant coverage in independent reliable sources) and a violation of WP:NOTSTATS. Another reason that it should not be merged is that it is sourced entirely to "Clas Glenning's website" (which looks like a fan source to me) and the only notable thing in the article, how many league titles each team has won, is already in Prva HNL. Jenks24 (talk) 21:43, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
This not a case of bias. You will notice from the histories of the three articles you mention that I have PRODed each of them in the last week or so.
Thanks for finding the RSSSF reference. As you can see in the nom, I was not concerned that it was OR, but that is was referenced to an unreliable source and I agree RSSSF is reliable, so that concern is allayed. However, the RSSSF reference is not "significant coverage", so I fail to see how the table is notable.
I guess we will have to agree to disagree about the "excessive listings of statistics" – I still feel it is excessive while you don't.
Regarding LISTCRUFT, I have never cited that essay in any of these all-time tables discussions. It is an interesting essay, but I agree it's not really relevant to this discussion. I am glad that you brought up Category:All-time football league tables – it is impossible to see at the moment, but I have recently had about 25 or 30 articles that were in that category deleted (either via PROD or AfD), because I believe the arguments I outlined in the nom applied to all of them (I'll list them here if you like). The few that remain only do so because significant coverage in independent reliable sources has been provided, proving that they pass GNG. Regarding the specific AfD that you cite, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/All-time La Liga table, you will note that I nominated that article and NOTSTATS was one of the main reasons. In that discussion, I agreed that a merge would be acceptable because significant coverage was shown.
Regarding "Jenks24 you don't get to decide what is the 'only notable thing here' ", no, I am not the arbiter of notability, which is why we have AfDs – so we as a community can discuss our interpretations and find a consensus. By saying that how many league titles each team has won is the only notable thing in this table, what I meant was that the number of league titles in the Prva HNL is the only part of this table that I could find significant coverage for. I am always happy to see notable articles be kept and if you can provide significant coverage for this table, then I will be happy to agree to a merge as I did in the La Liga discussion and the Allsvenskan discussion. Jenks24 (talk) 16:11, 26 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
As to GNG, yes, I do find it relevant here, just like I find it relevant at every AfD. "Do daily newspapers publish lists of Man United appearances?" Not that I'm aware of, but many books do, hence the lists meets GNG.
Regarding OR, I think it could technically be considered WP:SYNTH (a section of OR), but whether it's SYNTH or not doesn't really matter if it can't even be shown that the table passes GNG. Jenks24 (talk) 03:10, 29 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]