Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Detroit Tigers minor league players (3rd nomination)
This list may indeed be interesting and useful for fans, but since many of the individuals lack the references needed to establish notability by Wikipedia standards,  this and similar lists violate the guideline , which says in part: "A person may be included in a list of people if all the following requirements are met: The person meets the Wikipedia notability requirement...." Having a list of bios of nonnotable minor league baseball players is similar to including nonnotable residents of some town in the article about the town, or nonnotable alumni of a college in the article about the college.  Wikipedia is |not a directory. There are other places on the internet where fans can look up the present  roster of a minor league team. The team being notable does not justify having an article which is a directory of all its nonnotable members, any more than a college being notable justifies having a list of all its alumni, students or faculty. The only argument which has any traction would be an "ignore all rules" justification that these lists are a way to avoid having articles about all the individual nonnotable players
— User:Edison, 16:20, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:LISTPEOPLE||WP:NOT (Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists)