Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of NCAA Division I men's soccer players with 7 or more goals in a game

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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 14:27, 8 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

List of NCAA Division I men's soccer players with 7 or more goals in a game

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Wikipedia is not a statistics database. While a extremely rare occurence, 7 goals in one game in NCAA seems like a quite arbitrary topic. Why the cutoff at 7 when 4, 5 and 6 are also very rare? The navigation template at the bottom also contains redlinks for "at least 15 points", "30 saves" and other weird cutoffs. Furthermore, no entry in this list is newer than 26 years old, and given how soccer functions, its potential for growth is very limited. Thus, the small list can also be merged somewhere as an WP:ATD - though the issue with arbitrariness persists. Geschichte (talk) 14:05, 1 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete 8 goals in one game sounds impressive, but is it really when they played Southeastern Bible College that apparently had just 189 students (in 2008)? Sure Bernal was on a DI team, but they were playing a then-NAIA, now-DIII team. And the source 2 does NOT verify 8 goals and instead says "INDIVIDUAL RECORDS Most Goals, Game: 5 Marco Ribera" Then [1] says Kositzki had scored 17 and 16 points in two games, not 7. So the data here seems to be poor, with little meaning. Reywas92^Talk 15:49, 1 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - what a bizarre list. Why 7, why not 6 or 8? WP:NOTSTATS. Giant Snowman 21:12, 1 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:NOTSTATS. No evidence that this is a significant number, and it's covered in multiple sources. Joseph2302 (talk) 08:23, 2 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- @Joseph2302: - presume you mean not covered.....? -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:26, 2 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  - Yes I do... Joseph2302 (talk) 08:27, 2 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Strange and random list. Finch14 (talk) 07:12, 3 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete – the reason for the cutoff point, I would assume, is due to page 3 of the NCAA men's soccer records book. It only lists the players that scored at least seven goals in a game, hence the reason for the arbitrary limit. All that said, it still fails NOTSTATS and may never be added to, considering that same book mentions on the same page that no player has scored more than five goals in a game since 1998. Keskkonnakaitse (talk) 19:44, 5 September 2021 (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.