Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Japanese football transfers winter 2016–17

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Ya sh ! 12:01, 29 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

List of Japanese football transfers winter 2016–17

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An unreferenced article that consists of a list of... transfers?? Are we keeping things like this? How should its "notability" be assessed? KDS4444 (talk) 11:26, 22 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Gabe Iglesia (talk) 15:48, 22 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. Gabe Iglesia (talk) 15:49, 22 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. Gabe Iglesia (talk) 15:49, 22 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Spiderone 18:36, 22 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Japan has a professional football league, so the transfers involving its clubs would seem notable to me. It's possible this article may have been created too soon, depending on when clubs are allowed to start signing players in the relevant transfer window. That article says the Japanese window doesn't open until 8 January, so Japanese clubs would not be able to sign players from other clubs until then. They would only sign players who are free agents before that date. Jmorrison230582 (talk) 11:16, 23 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - lists of transfers are notable, being unreferenced is not a reason to delete. Giant Snowman 18:50, 23 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Transfer windows from professional leagues are notable. Smartyllama (talk) 16:17, 28 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.