Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates/Frölunda HC seasons

Frölunda HC seasons

The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page. No further edits should be made to this page. The closing editor's comments were: 6 weeks, 5 keep, 5 delist. No discussion in the last month. No consensus to remove. Keep. Toohool 00:56, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

previous nomination

This list does not seem to fit criterion 1(a)1: "the list brings together a group of existing articles related by well-defined entry criteria". This list does not link to articles on any of the team's seasons, nor does it link to any articles on country, league or division seasons. - PeeJay 01:57, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delist for the reasons I outlined in the previous nomination. Circeus 02:36, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delist and Transwiki to Wikisource per WP:NOT - "Articles which are primarily comprised of statistical data may be better suited for inclusion in Wikisource " Corpx 03:45, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Bwuh? Oh right. We have to get rid of approx half our FLs by that criterion. Circeus 04:04, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Does half of FLs contain statistics? Corpx 05:01, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - A good majority do. T Rex | talk 18:09, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep 1(a)2: is a timeline of important events on a notable topic, the inclusion of which can be objectively sourced and 1(a)3: contains a finite, complete and well-defined set of items that naturally fit together to form a significant topic of study, and where the members of the set are not sufficiently notable to have individual articles. --Krm500 12:39, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: The list, for example, contains a finite, complete and well-defined set of items that naturally fit together to form a significant topic of study, and where the members of the set are not sufficiently notable to have individual articles. There's not the absolute need to have an individual article on every single season according to the policy.--Serte ^{[ Talk · Contrib ]} 14:01, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep A useful and informative list that is well designed and laid out. Agree with Serte and Krm500 as not all need to be linked. --Djsasso 14:51, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per criterion 1(a)3. List could use a picture though, if one is available. T Rex | talk 18:11, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delist This list confuses other editors who work on similar lists. This isn't a list of existing articles.(fails 1(a)1) If this is a timeline of significant events, then some of the seasons should not be listed at all due to lack of any significant events.(fails 1(a)2) Frölunda HC is a professional club and plays in the professional league; therefore, its seasons are more than notable.(fails 1(a)3)--Crzy cheetah 18:12, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - Regarding criterion 1(a)3, why do you think that every season in Frölunda HC's history is notable, just because it is a professional club in a professional league? Surely if nothing of note happened in that season, then the season as a whole is not notable. - PeeJay 22:40, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - In a professional league, there is always something of note happen. If there were nothing of note, as you say, then why was a list of its seasons created? --Crzy cheetah 23:08, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    - They haven't played in a professional league all the time. List was created to get an overview of their history, statistical wise. --Krm500 00:02, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    - So, Crzycheetah, if a team finishes in mid-table obscurity and fails to win any trophies in one season, you think that's notable enough to make a season article about? - PeeJay 00:43, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      - Do you mean a season like 2006-07 Frölunda HC season? If so, then yes, I think it's a notable article.--Crzy cheetah 01:21, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      - As a compromise, I would take the links to the individual league seasons, something like "Elitserien 2005-06", but I don't see any of them here at Wikipedia. I see Manchester United F.C. seasons uses links like "1997-98 in English football". Frölunda, on the other hand, does not have any articles about Swedish hockey either. I mean something like "2007 in Swedish hockey". I just don't see any valid argument to keep this list featured. --Crzy cheetah 04:03, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        I understand your objections, but I don't see how those articles change the quality of this article. --Krm500 12:59, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        All I'm asking for is to follow the first criterion of WP:WIAFL. You need to ask that question to the person who came up with the first criterion.--Crzy cheetah 00:15, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Considering that there are few articles relating specifically to Swedish hockey, it is not so easy to link a season article as it would be a league in North America. What is available has been linked to, and it is expanding as fast as users can create the articles. Kaiser matias 06:11, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What is available is not enough to warrant a featured status. When all articles are created, gaining a featured status won't be a problem. Another way to keep this list featured is to revise or remove the first criterion of WP:WIAFL, since the majority of editors don't follow it.--Crzy cheetah 07:04, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Crzycheetah, what do you mean by "since the majority of editors don't follow [the first criterion of WP:WIAFL]"? Colin°^Talk 22:39, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I meant "since the majority of editors don't follow the "a" part of [the first criterion of WP:WIAFL] correctly". Lately, there have been more and more arguments coming up here concerning 1a criterion. I am talking about sports-related lists mostly. It just seems to me that the majority of editors are more inclined to follow 1a3 in situations where following 1a1 would be more appropriate. --Crzy cheetah 09:10, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delist In the absence of links, we are judging the list on criterion 1a3. Are the Frölunda HC seasons a "significant topic of study" and are most seasons "not sufficiently notable to have individual articles"? I am inclined to think that although each season is notable, creating such articles on English WP would be an impossible challenge. Most of the seasons pre-date the web, so we are talking about citing Swedish newspapers that are on microfilm in a Swedish library. Linking to league season articles sounds a good idea but might hit similar problems. Would it be possible to create these back to the mid-90s? That might be enough. Has the Swedish WP got articles we could copy? I appreciate Corpx's concerns about this being just a page of stats. The criterion 1a3 was not created to allow basic data to be featured; the list should have some other redeeming WP-related features. Colin°^Talk 22:39, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I think the Swedish WP has a few season articles. But I don't get what you want, is it league season articles or team season articles? --Krm500 12:40, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - Team season would be best, with league season as a compromise. As Crzycheetah said, league season is used by other lists. Colin°^Talk 12:51, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]