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The result was delete. The copyright argument is unconvincing. Copyright subsists only in creative works, which do not include tables of compiled statistics. But there's consensus to delete this content for other reasons as well.  Sandstein  19:31, 30 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

FIFA rankings of the AFC (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)

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Also includes the following

• List of FIFA rankings of the AFC (1993–1995)
• List of FIFA rankings of the AFC (1996–2000)
• List of FIFA rankings of the AFC (2001–2005)
• List of FIFA rankings of the AFC (2006–2010)
• List of FIFA rankings of the AFC (2011–2015)

The whole lot is a copy of the source and would be better referenced as a see also in FIFA Ranking. It fails WP:NOTDIRECTORY => Spudgfsh (Text Me!) 18:55, 22 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. GiantSnowman 19:04, 22 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

So, we can't have lists? It's a list of the old FIFA rankings for the AFC confederation. There is nothing wrong with that. Every ranking table has a source. There really is no discussion as this is historic data. --weka (talk) 19:00, 22 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete all per WP:COPYVIO. The FIFA World Rankings are copyrighted (hence why we only list the top 20 in the FIFA World Rankings article), so to list the positions of all 50-odd AFC teams for every month of the rankings' history is a massive copyright violation. – PeeJay 19:02, 22 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete all - yes it's possible copyvio, but also violates WP:NOTDIRECTORY and WP:NOTSTATS. GiantSnowman 19:04, 22 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• I see... so why does the AFC wiki page list all of the 50 nation's rankings? Is that not copyrighted? What's the point of having THAT table (AFC, UEFA, OFC, etc) in every confederation's page if they are copyrighted. --weka (talk) 19:05, 22 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Ah, shoot. You guys are right. I guess it's my own fault for not reading up on this. Thanks for the lesson. It can be deleted. I may have lost a lot of work but I learned something, I guess. --weka (talk) 19:13, 22 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - per GS and PJ. Copyvio. Fenix down (talk) 14:55, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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