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The result was delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 01:12, 11 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

List of national football teams by highest FIFA ranking[edit]

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Contested PROD. Original concern was "There is no need for an entirely separate table (and article) for this subject." PROD was removed with the rationale "Page details topic not individually represented elsewhere. Without this page individual teams have to be sourced to their own page, proving both inconvenient and resulting in comparisons being unable to be drawn between historical team performance." The counter-argument is, of course, that Wikipedia is not a stats book. Comparing national teams by their highest FIFA World Rankings position is a very good example of a stat that should not be represented on a separate page. The best alternative would be to revamp the List of men's national association football teams and List of women's national association football teams articles so that the appropriate stats can be included in columns of a table, but let's not worry about alternatives until the fate of this article has been determined. – Pee Jay 13:03, 31 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. – Pee Jay 13:06, 31 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 13:11, 31 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 13:11, 31 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - fails WP:LISTCRUFT and WP:NOTSTATS. Interesting? Yes. Encyclopedic? No. Giant Snowman 15:52, 31 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - WP:NOTSTATS. As mentioned by the nominator, the goals of this page could be covered in an existing page with the right type of formatting but this page doesn't warrant its own article. C 679 11:46, 9 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - the subject fails both WP:NOTSTATS and WP:LISTN. The information could instead be included in List of men's national association football teams or List of women's national association football teams. Mentoz86 (talk) 15:11, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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