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Article is incomplete, very much
WP:OR, there isn't any football articles like this one, no prose to detail the importance of this.
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ChrisTheDude (
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On the merits of the nom, if the list is incomplete that is something to be fixed through normal editing. Deletion will not make it complete. It can only be OR if it is unverifiable, but given that the entire list is cited to 11v11.com, "the official site of the Association of Football Statisticians" (and so what appears to be a
reliable source), that claim doesn't seem credible. Presumably the "prose to detail the importance" of recording hat-tricks would be at
hat-trick.
So in my view, the only meaningful question here is whether it makes sense to be listing these out by team. That the England national football team list is a featured list tells us that the community-supported answer is, at the very least, "sometimes." I don't know if there are other lists for association football teams (there doesn't appear to be any master list or category for all hat-trick lists). Some teams just appear to have aggregate statistics or records for hat-tricks, such as at
List of Manchester United F.C. records and statistics (listing the goal scorers with the team-record fastest hat-tricks and most hat-tricks). postdlf (talk) 18:48, 31 January 2014 (UTC)reply
Delete - Whilst WC / EPL hat tricks may have achieved wider coverage as a topic, I can see no evidence that hat-tricks by Arsenal players have attracted any significant reliable coverage as a subject in themselves. The charge of OR is incorrect however. Incomplete does not equal OR, plus all the hat tricks are referenced.
Fenix down (
talk) 09:55, 2 February 2014 (UTC)reply
Delete - no evidence of notability.
GiantSnowman 13:31, 3 February 2014 (UTC)reply
Delete – no evidence this is a stand-alone topic outside of Wikipedia. C679 13:10, 8 February 2014 (UTC)reply
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