615:- if a category of this topic isn't listcruft, then the topic isn't listcruft here either. Having a category for something is not a valid argument for deleting a list. Also keep in mind that lists have the potential for being enhanced with features that categories don't have. A rudimentary list is a necessary starting point for enhanced lists to be built from. If you delete them, you waste the resource, and you disrupt the possibility for collaboration on the topic by listbuilders. By the way, I'm a listbuilder. I hardly ever work on categories. I've built and developed hundreds of lists, the vast majority of which duplicate categories. By pushing categories over lists, you are basically telling me and others like me that our list work is worthless. But there are very good reasons why we construct lists. Lists are much easier to work with than categories - I can build a list in a fraction of the time it takes to build a similar category. The data in lists can be utilized and differentiated much easier than the data in categories (cutting and pasting links from categories is problematic, because you can't access the wikitext directly and because categories are only displayed 200 links at a time). Lists are faster and easier to navigate and browse, because more items can be displayed in single list, and because lists can be scrolled through while categories cannot. Being articles,
915:. Retired status is not an interesting attribute of these players. (In fact retirement status is not an intersting attribute of most professions.) Just as there would be no point in listing them separately for living or dead, this serves no purpose. The list is also poor constructed, completely lacking in useful annotation (birth/death dates, career dates, teams played for) making it no better (and in fact worse) than a category. It's surprising that a list of retired anything wouldn't give the years the careers started and ended.
1002:- the main merit of articles such as this is identify articles that ought to be written (by red links). There are several in this list. If they are notable enough to warrnat having articles, the keep it; if not delete it. A list of American Presidents (without more) would not have that use, since all have articles, but it could give their dates in office and of death, thus providing an answer to the question of who was president in (say) 1854.
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Knowledge (XXG). But putting the "we have categories for this" argument aside, I'm not sure that the
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I don't seriously think this will ever be too large to maintain. As long as we limit ourselves to players from the top leagues, it could be done, with some patience. All the information is easily available in books and websites. (Although I am starting to agree that there's little value in having
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This is the classic "indiscrminate list" -- one that provides nothing but a bunch of blue-links and no information to discriminate between one item on the list and the next. Even if there was information, what's the point? Do we need a list of NFL quarterbacks who are between the categories of
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