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The result was Nomination withdrawn. Fenix down (talk) 16:25, 29 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

List of sports kit manufacturing companies[edit]

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Unnecessary and incomplete list, which is unsourced JMHamo (talk) 13:47, 29 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• NOMINATION WITHDRAWN JMHamo (talk) 15:26, 29 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. JMHamo (talk) 13:49, 29 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. Human3015^TALK  14:02, 29 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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• Keep, defining characteristic, plausible search term. Siuenti (talk) 14:19, 29 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - Unnecessary non-notable list. The individual companies are notable, but this list is cruft, specifically points 1, 3, 5, 8, and 12. — Jkudlick ^tc_s 14:37, 29 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• I have been swayed by Fenix down's eloquence and strike my !vote. — Jkudlick ^tc_s 16:02, 29 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• What exactly is a sports kit? (term redlinked at the time of this post) Is it a synonym of sporting goods? postdlf (talk) 14:38, 29 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

More or less. I guess it could refer to sportswear or sports equipment or both. Spiderone 15:16, 29 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep - Seems no more or less notable than the majority of the lists here, which is to say pretty notable. The nomination rationale istself is so flawed as to basically be Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions 101.

1. The claim that it is not necessary is basically WP:UNENCYCLOPEDIC.
2. The claim that it is incomplete is basically WP:NEGLECT
3. The claim to no sources is basically WP:MUST (whilst also being WP:BLUE in this instance as it is self-evident that the constituents of the list are sports kit manufacturers to the vast majority of people).

The claims of listcruft are also flawed:

1. Point 1: Given the existence of this it seems perfectly reasonable to have a list of companies by this defining characteristic.
2. Point 3: None of the four points at WP:IINFO are relevant to this list which by its title is inherently not indiscriminate.
3. Point 5: No evidence is provided that the list cannot be expanded. In fact this is the opposite of what the initial deletion rationale claims when it says it is incomplete.
4. Point 8 is irrelevant per WP:NOTPAPER and also because WP is not just an encyclopedia per WP:NGEO so the fact you wouldn't find the same content in the Encyclopedia Britannica is not a relevant deletion rationale.
5. Point 12 is demonstrably false. the current constituents are all large global companies of significant importance to their sector. There are also others of similar size that could be added without coming close to making this point true.

That said though, the title is a bit poor. It should be moved to List of sporting goods manufacturers. Fenix down (talk) 15:12, 29 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• If Fenix down is correct about what "sports kit" means, keep per his comments, per WP:CLN as a complement to Category:Sporting goods manufacturers, and rename to match the category and the parent article sporting goods (to which sports kit should redirect). I also agree with his critique of the generic and invalid nomination and subsequent deletion !vote. postdlf (talk) 15:19, 29 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.