143:- Useless is incorrect as it's already provided me with info what I didn't know and couldn't easily work out elsewhere. Incomplete is not an issue as most things on wiki are incomplete. Why is it unmaintainable? I suspect it's quite maintenable remember this is the football section that has the number of match appearances on the football player infobox, something that changes about once a week for every active footballer! Footballers moving country doesn't happen anything like as often.
396:, if something can be fixed without deleting it, then it isn't a very good candidate for deletion. Also, coverage in a category isn't a good rationale for deletion of a list, since they are meant to be synergistic, with each making up for the others weaknesses. The deletion of this list would put a hole in the list navigation system, much in the same way that deleting the category would put a hole in the category system.
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229:. This is the list equivalent of the "English expatriate footballers" category and should be kept as such. Nominators rationale for deletion is extremely flimsy, as Knowledge (XXG) is not working toward a deadline and nothing on Knowledge (XXG) will ever be complete. Combined with the guidelines put forth in
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