Deletion of List of rugby union players by country

Comment: per  as an index of articles and per  as complementary to the category structure. The nom, in addition to being unfamiliar with that guideline, seems to think it's harder to determine whether an article should be listed as a union rugby player than to determine whether it should be categorized as a union rugby player, when it's the same assertion of fact either way. So their argument about inclusion criteria can be dismissed as without basis and contradicted by their own nomination. The "strong delete" !voter doesn't seem to be commenting on this list, so it's hard to understand where they're coming from. Perhaps they do not know that lists can be limited to only notable entries, or they have not noticed that much of this list's content is organizing links to the separate lists for individual countries rather than repeating their content
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (WP:LISTPURP||WP:NOTDUP)