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The result was delete. If anyone wants the content userfied so it can be used in another article, let me know. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 10:15, 23 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

List of footballers born in Scotland who have played for other international teams[edit]

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It's the same case of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of association football players with dual nationality and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Brazilian-born footballers who have played for another national team. Another trivial list list. It does not seem to me that the fact that someone was born in Scotland and play for another country is by itself notable (and the list of Brazil, which seems to be way more notable in soccer than Scotland, was deleted). Bilhauano (talk) 16:34, 15 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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• Keep. It's a regularly reported subject when there are players who were born in Scotland play for other national teams, e.g. James McCarthy or Aiden McGeady playing for Ireland Telegraph Guardian Irish Independent, or Scott Arfield playing for Canada BBC Sport. The article also details historic examples, such as when the early US World Cup teams had many Scottish players. I'm not sure that debates from 2010 or 2012 about different articles are particularly useful. Jmorrison230582 (talk) 17:00, 15 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: most of the entries are unsourced, and I fail to see what this sort of list is actually for ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 17:16, 15 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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• Delete - a list like this could be conceivable be created for any single nation, it is very common for footballers to internationally represent a country they were not born in. I would not be opposed however to a merge to Football in Scotland if there is any information that is deemed worth saving. Inter&anthro (talk) 19:49, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - only because it's in the wrong place, if anything. I, too, would not be averse to seeing it as part of an article on the wider topic of Scottish football. Montgomery15 (talk) 03:34, 17 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - topic is not notable. GiantSnowman 09:42, 17 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

For information, the following articles are on a similar theme:

• List of Albania international footballers born outside Albania
• List of Algerian international footballers born outside Algeria
• List of Australia international soccer players born outside Australia
• List of Belgium international footballers born outside Belgium
• List of England international footballers born outside England
• List of Republic of Ireland international footballers born outside the Republic of Ireland
• List of Scotland international footballers born outside Scotland (the converse of this article)
• List of Wales international footballers born outside Wales

I suppose these may be considered differently, as it is the converse scenario, but I'm not sure why. Jmorrison230582 (talk) 10:32, 17 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - agree with the above comment that such a list could conceivably be created for any country, so I'm not sure of its encyclopedic worth. Where there are instances where early in another country's history significant numbers of players from Scotland represented that country, or where there is crossover between two countries, such as Scotland and Ireland, this should be discussed in sourced prose in the relevant Football in... article. Fenix down (talk) 12:48, 22 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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