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The result was delete. Sarahj2107 ( talk) 11:15, 21 November 2016 (UTC) reply

List of stadium stands by capacity

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Contested PROD (from 5 years ago – sorry I missed it!). The inclusion criteria for this list are ridiculously arbitrary (no stands connected to other stands? That rules out most of the stadium stands around the world, then!), and furthermore I have never seen any similar list compiled by any reliable source. This list has been cobbled together from three sources (which only cover the first three entries), leaving a further 40-odd entries unaccounted for. This list feels like one user's vanity project and as such has never been fully completed. I very much doubt that there are any Formula 1 Grand Prix stands that would be out of place on this list, and yet they are conspicuously absent. Of course, missing entries can be added, but even if we added entries one at a time, there would be no evidence that the list was ever complete. Without a definitive source to provide the overall basis for it, this list is very much a non-starter. – Pee Jay 15:11, 13 November 2016 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. – Pee Jay 15:16, 13 November 2016 (UTC) reply

• Delete - no evidence of notability. Giant Snowman 15:20, 13 November 2016 (UTC) reply
• Delete - I completely agree with the nomination and was going to AfD it myself had I not seen PeeJay had PRODded it a while back. Spiderone 16:29, 13 November 2016 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Spiderone 20:45, 13 November 2016 (UTC) reply

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• Keep Now this is a blast from the past, something I started in my early years of Wikipedia. As for it's inclusion, it was intended primarily as a navigational list with it being a decorated WP:List of lists. The C of E God Save the Queen! ( talk) 21:30, 13 November 2016 (UTC) reply

@ The C of E: But how is it notable enough for a stand-alone article? I also don't understand how it can be navigational since most of the stands mentioned in the article don't have independent notability and hence don't have articles. Spiderone 21:52, 13 November 2016 (UTC) reply

• Delete - The inclusion criteria are arbitrary at best, and there is no context apart from "this is a list of ..."; there is nothing about this list to make it encyclopedic, so it fails WP:LISTN. Add to that the fact that it is largely unsourced, and it also fails WP:GNG. —  Jkudlick •  t •  c •  s 22:15, 13 November 2016 (UTC); edited 12:11, 14 November 2016 (UTC) reply

• Delete, no clear inclusion criteria. Many North American stadiums (football or baseball) would have a larger single structure than most of the stands listed here. Jmorrison230582 ( talk) 14:24, 17 November 2016 (UTC) reply
• Delete - Per WP:LISTN; no indication that the list topic has been discussed as a group or set by independent reliable sources. The fact that none of these stands has a dedicated article suggests none have received sufficient individual coverage to satisfy WP:GEOFEAT and thus that the overall subject is not that notable. I'm also not sure how encyclopedic inclusion criteria could be applied to this listing either, i.e. how small does an area have to be before it is no longer a stand? Does it have to have a dedicated name? Fenix down ( talk) 09:27, 21 November 2016 (UTC) reply

ITt does say that it has to be a standalone unconnected stand and there is a size limit on inclusion. The C of E God Save the Queen! ( talk) 09:48, 21 November 2016 (UTC) reply

Thanks, have struck that bit. I still think the inclusion criteria are essentially arbitrary. I'm not sure where you would go to find general coverage for stands >7000 to satisfy LISTN. Fenix down ( talk) 10:59, 21 November 2016 (UTC) reply

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