The result was delete. Davewild ( talk) 18:38, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
This article is (and/or will become) an unmanageable Wikipedia:No original research problem because we have no basis for the inclusion or exclusion of statistics. The only reference I know of which considers nation-wide records in one set of lists is James Hothersall's [1] page – and as this page states clearly in its lead section, there is no universally accepted definition of a "top-level competition" or a "senior match". Indeed, the editor of the nominated page has commenced by defining a top level game differently from Hothersall – by omitting interstate games in stating Craig Bradley's tally of games – with no apparent basis for this decision other than the editor's choice (and, indeed, recent moves by AFL historians regarding Bruce Doull's consecutive games record would make clear that there is a strong counterargument for excluding interstate games from the list). This lack of an endorsed and agreed-upon definition of what games count and what games do not count will make it impossible to put together an article which properly meets the Wikipedia:Verifiability and Wikipedia:No original research policies; and until the AFL's historians put forward such a definition that can be used unambiguously, I suggest we have no option but to delete any page which tries to compile nation-wide records in this manner. Aspirex ( talk) 05:23, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
The result was delete. Davewild ( talk) 18:38, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
This article is (and/or will become) an unmanageable Wikipedia:No original research problem because we have no basis for the inclusion or exclusion of statistics. The only reference I know of which considers nation-wide records in one set of lists is James Hothersall's [1] page – and as this page states clearly in its lead section, there is no universally accepted definition of a "top-level competition" or a "senior match". Indeed, the editor of the nominated page has commenced by defining a top level game differently from Hothersall – by omitting interstate games in stating Craig Bradley's tally of games – with no apparent basis for this decision other than the editor's choice (and, indeed, recent moves by AFL historians regarding Bruce Doull's consecutive games record would make clear that there is a strong counterargument for excluding interstate games from the list). This lack of an endorsed and agreed-upon definition of what games count and what games do not count will make it impossible to put together an article which properly meets the Wikipedia:Verifiability and Wikipedia:No original research policies; and until the AFL's historians put forward such a definition that can be used unambiguously, I suggest we have no option but to delete any page which tries to compile nation-wide records in this manner. Aspirex ( talk) 05:23, 17 May 2015 (UTC)