Deletion of List of association football players considered the greatest of all time

Comment: on (I don't believe it)  grounds: we do tend to keep these sort of articles on the flipside, and this one is well-sourced. See Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_automobiles_considered_the_worst, List of films considered the best, List of films considered the worst, :Category:Lists of worsts
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (WP:OSE)

Comment: completely arbitrary choice of subject experts, should also include 19th century players, should include players not written about much in English. But all of that would verge into |original research. If the article is kept, it should be cut down to the essentials, which is the "See also" section that mentions other people's lists. Those may not be any better than ours, as the whole thing is subjective, but we shouldn't pretend our own  is more authoritative than those expert-curated ones
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:No original research (WP:OR||WP:SYNTH)

Comment: This is clearly a mash up of  and . In other words  Not encyclopedic whatsoever
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:No original research (WP:OR||WP:POV||WP:SYNTH)

Comment: as per 
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Cited policy: Wikipedia:No original research (WP:SYNTH)

Comment: Such a pity as a huge amount of effort has gone into this article but it is a case of  / .  I would support a new article that chronicled "the most notable lists" of the "Greatest football players of all time" (i.e. only notable lists, and each one reproduced faithfully and kept separate from the others).  Such an article would be titled differently as "Lists of association football players considered the greatest of all time", to clarify that even a single highly notable list, could never be considered definitive (it would be a POV-Fork
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:No original research (WP:OR||WP:SYN)

Comment: we're an encyclopedia, not Buzzfeed to make ratings of everything. That's in addition to the method of determining experts being unsalvageably |original research, there's just no way to pull a list from more than one source and have anything resembling a consistent, non-OR definition who's an expert and who's not; I've seen enough football, can I be an expert too? In such case, I vote for Arjen Robben because all those http://pulledmygroin.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cut-inside-man-8.jpg CUTTING http://pulledmygroin.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cut-inside-man-10.png INSIDE https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6Vmw8TWgAE9o0o.jpg MEMES
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:No original research (WP:OR)