Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of San Jose Earthquakes rosters

:The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. I'm closing this as "keep" but some consensus appears below to split and merge the contents of this into season articles. I won't do that myself and I won't dictate it through this close, but it seems like a good idea. Protonk (talk) 06:58, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

=[[List of San Jose Earthquakes rosters]]=

:{{la|List of San Jose Earthquakes rosters}} ([{{fullurl:List of San Jose Earthquakes rosters|wpReason={{urlencode: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of San Jose Earthquakes rosters}}&action=delete}} delete]) – (View AfD)(View log)

This is an unencyclopedic and trivial list of rosters. Delete per WP:IINFO and WP:TRIVIA. Tavix (talk) 22:55, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

See Category:Lists of footballers by club Mohrflies (talk) 16:08, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

:* That category and this list is two completely different things. This is a listing of every single roster the club had since inception. The "List of players" lists are valid lists which list the players who have played. Tavix (talk) 18:29, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football related deletions. Jmorrison230582 (talk) 09:37, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
Keep - lists of players who have played for a club are notable, as the above category poves. Giant Snowman 11:57, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

:* It isn't a list of players, its a list of rosters. Tavix (talk) 18:29, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Comment - isn't this much easier just to convert into a list of players instead of doing an AfD for it? matt91486 (talk) 21:14, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

::Also, the season by season rosters can be moved into season articles, so it is maintained. Basically, this page can be separated quite easily, and I think that should be the course of action. matt91486 (talk) 21:27, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Comment I can see use for an article such as this, but I have no need for this. I might consider voting delete. Govvy (talk) 21:26, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
Split/Merge the content should be split up by season and then merged into the relevant seasonal articles. If no such articles exist, then I guess this article should be deleted. – Pee Jay 23:29, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
Split each roster into the relevant club season article (e.g. San Jose Earthquakes season 2008), then delete this article. The information in this article IS useful, but certainly not in this format. Bettia (rawr!) 11:17, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
Merge each section into the appropriate season articles, then redirect this article to the team article to preserve contribution history for GFDL. Note that this action did not require AFD. Jerry delusional ¤ kangaroo 03:18, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

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