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The result was delete. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 00:09, 25 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

List of football players from Non-FIFA nations[edit]

Unreferenced list. No indication of what makes a 'nation' eligible for listing, or what makes a player eligible for the nation. Stu.W UK (talk) 02:10, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football related deletions. Stu.W UK (talk) 02:15, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: I can't see the point of this list at all. For example, some of the players (Kasey Wehrman) listed under the Aboriginal flag have played for Australia and they are all Australian citizens, I would think. I havn't heared of an Aboriginal national football team. While there is a Category:Indigenous Australian soccer players, I don't think there is a "national" team. EA210269 (talk) 02:42, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete hardly verifiable and imho absolutely unneeded. --Angelo (talk) 08:39, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, strange way of categorizing footballers. Does not belong. Punkmorten (talk) 10:17, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Just because there's some crappy entries doesn't mean the entire list is without merit. We have a clear definition of what a nation is, so all entries about ethnic groups without an actual attached nation should be cut. If we have a list of association football players, there's no reason to have a list for ones that aren't affiliated with an association. In fact, it makes sense to. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:47, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

From what I can see, all of the pages linked from the List of Association Footballers article now redirect to the relevant 'Football in (Country)' article. Bettia (bring on the trumpets!) 06:34, 19 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Except Denmark, Taiwan which are bland meaningless lists, Canada and USA which link to Categories, Zambia which is is a rather bland list of all Zambians, and Brazil - which at least is a good cross reference between "player names" and "birth names".--ClubOranje^T 11:31, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. This list is un-verifiable and inaccurate in many places, and has no place on Wikipedia. Giant Snowman 11:42, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete pointless list that fails WP:V. John Sloan @ 13:37, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom, not notable. Basically fails 1,2,(arguably 3), 4, 6, 7, 8 of WP:LISTCRUFT--ClubOranje^T 11:31, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete a list that has nothing to do with football, it is also impossible to complete as there are millions of people from Catalonia. Also Rafael van der Vaart is Yeniche. Plus the list is mostly covered in better detail here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_football_players_with_dual_nationality Spiderone (talk) 15:15, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Most of these players play for the FIFA-affiliated national teams of their countries, not for unaffiliated subnational teams. The fact that they might, in some alternate reality, have chosen to play for the non-affiliated teams reflecting their place of birth or ethnicity does not rise to the level of something that should be an encyclopedia article. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 03:57, 23 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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