1183::) You are missing the point of those lists... While for some nations most of the players that archive to play abroad are generally more notable than the ones that don´t get contracts abroad, that may not be the case for all. Exemple, the Nicaraguan players that got to play in the US or Europe are usually the best ones, the Australians that go to play to Malaysia or Romania simply may be, or not. The point of the listing of the players that play/played abroad is not "notability because of emigrating", but more as a statistics list. On the other hand, maybe in the future we may have lists of players that played in only one club during their entire careers, players that played more than 10 consecutive seasons in the Premier League, and others of the kind. I don´t know WFC if you understand this, but I beleave, and the number of editors participating on this related articles, that many people around the world simply enjoy not only checking their nations lists of players abroad (including in this foreign players in their leagues), but like to see from other nations, as well, as for comparison purposes, or simply curiosity. Another interesting fact may be that WP is likely to be the pioneer on this kind of stats for many countries...
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it from the perspective of those minor countries (while mostly don´t, certainly some, exemple, Barcelona, fans do have interess about the different nationalities of their players, and football stats fans generally I beleave do). From what I understood, English WP is the most international one, and it is not done with the exclusive interess to people from the US, UK, Australia and other anglophile nations. If some
Nicaraguan editor is willing to list the Nicaraguan players that played professionally abroad, well why not allowing it? And if you, or many, by your words, don´t have interess about it, well, don´t get me wrong, but ignore it. I also don´t share interess about certain articles (and perhaps most people doesn´t, as well) but that doesn´t necesarilly mean the articles shouldn´t exist. And regarding the nationality issue, I really don´t understand what is making so much strugle at all, because beleave me, a, exemple Nicaraguan, editor knows quite 99% certainly which players are Nicaraguan, and which aren´t. Regarding nationality, the "problematic" players are just a tiny minority, even less that 1%.
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Well, that is why we should make some criteriums for them. Exemple, including only professional leagues. By that, we will be sure about players notability (since playing in a pro league makes them automatically notable) and by that, we will shorten the lenght of them (most include largely players in
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Even if this could be sourced... so what? It would be completely impossible to deal with dual nationalities. This is something that squad templates also struggle with, but it's far more pressing when nationality is absolutely central to the purpose of the article. But more importantly (taking Spain
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Improve sources, and use them in a historical perspective, as partially the
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