Deletion of List of basketball players who died during their careers

Comment: The NOTMEMORIAL claim seems tied to the existence of some red links.  Per , it can be reasonable to limit the list to notable people—blue links and red links for which a page can be reasonably created.  However , so it's another misleading basis to delete. The red links can be cleaned up—either |boldly removing it, boldly turing red links into blue or requesting creation at Wikipedia:Requested articles, or otherwise flagging the issue—without resorting to an AfD
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists (WP:CSC||WP:AFDISNOTCLEANUP||WP:BB)

Comment: Meets : {{tq|The entirety of the list does not need to be documented in sources for notability, only that the grouping or set in general has been.|q=yes}} See: 1) {{cite web|title=Big-Time Basketball: So Many Tragedies|date=March 15, 1995|work=Baltimore Sun|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1995-03-14-1995073034-story.html}} 2) {{cite web|title=Sudden Cardiac Death in Famous Athletes, Lessons Learned, Heterogeneity in Expert Recommendations and Pitfalls of Contemporary Screening Strategies|work=Journal of Atrial Fibrillation|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7237076/}} 3) {{cite web|title=Collier's death raises NBA heart issue|date=October 16, 2005|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2005-10-16-0510160255-story.html|work=Chicago Tribune}} The nomination is misleading, as Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of association footballers who died during their careers|the cited AfD mainly deleted List of association footballers who died during their careers as a duplicate of another list, which still exists. Per that nomination: {{tq|We already have List of association footballers who died while playing, which has a clearer, better defined scope.|q=yes}} Also, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of American football players who died during their career was closed as "keep", so there's no precedent that this has to be deleted
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:LISTN)

Comment: I don't have an opinion on deleting or keeping the article, but I have to push back on the nominator's assertion that "a third of the list is non-notable people". Lack of a Wikipedia article does not preclude their notability. If that were the case Special:NewPages|new articles wouldn't be a thing. See ed link
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Redirect (WP:R)

Comment: a Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Non-encyclopedic_cross-categorizations|non-encyclopaedic cross-categorisation so violates ; what would be required for an article like this to be kept would be reliable sources discussing in depth the connection between basketball players dying and that death taking place while they are contracted to a team. Essentially, this is just a list of players that died young and, whilst that is certainly tragic, Wikipedia is not a memorial page and we do not need a list article on people of every line of work dying before they were able to retire from that line of work unless online or offline media clearly deem such a topic to be a notable one itself. At the moment, we have a list of deceased sportspeople sourced to obituaries and death announcements but no indication that the intersection itself is notable
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT)

Comment: This is an inescapably natural and real-world topic of interest. My view of this coincides with Zagalejo's, but as soon as I saw the AfD in the log, these words spontaneously formed in my mind. Also, I join Bagumba's argument that  has been met, and that the nomination is a little problematic in that it creates an impression of a precedent that isn't factual
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:LISTN)