Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of basketball players who died during their careers
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
— User:Bagumba, 10:36, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:CSC||WP:AFDISNOTCLEANUP||WP:BB (Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists)