Talk:List of association football families

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Adding here the conversation between myself and  as I think it could be helpful to have more opinions on it:
Hi SuperJew, They divorced. In the United States, that indicates they are not a family. What are your thoughts? Hmlarson (talk) 19:23, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I was not aware of that :O Umm I think we should keep it (prob with a note), as they were married while they were playing soccer, no? --SuperJew (talk) 22:05, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'd vote no. Wambach's re-married with kids. Her wife is not a soccer player. Huffman retired in 2014.ref Hmlarson (talk) 22:44, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  My point is that there was a point that they were both playing soccer and married --SuperJew (talk) 18:02, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  I get your point - but that isn't the name of the article. Hmlarson (talk) 18:48, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  I guess you could add a "divorced or previous families" section to be accurate. Hmlarson (talk) 18:49, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  For example: "List of foreign League X players" include players who "became" foreign even after leaving the league (for examples: Moses Ashikodi and Dexter Blackstock were capped for A&B after playing in the EPL, Daniel Gordon was capped for Jamaica after playing in the Bundesliga, Iain Ramsay was capped for the Philippines after playing in the A-League). I was going by that logic, to say players who were married should be included in the talked about list. However, your suggestion of adding a "divorced or previous families" section, (or perhaps a note) might be a good way to explain it sufficiently. --SuperJew (talk) 22:25, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  Sure, I get it. As is, it’s outdated and inaccurate, though. They aren’t a family - haven’t been for quite some time. Hmlarson (talk) 02:23, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  So for having a "divorced or previous families" section, do you think that should be a sub-section in each country as needed or a general section (on the same header level as the countries)? --SuperJew (talk) 07:13, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

text: Initial thought is if they are to be included, no extra section, just include them as others in the list are. Have more lucid thoughts on this but not it a position to explain it all just now ClubOranjeT 12:26, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Divorced/previous families 

message: I split the English list some time ago since it was large enough to be its own article, but none of these sections that remain are large enough for that. I suggest we split them by continent/confederation, but the problem is that the continents are not the same as the FIFA confederations, except for Africa. I think this means for now we can easily split the African countries out, but I seek the consideration of other editors. It would also be good if someone could address the references section which is the article's biggest section at over 30,000 bytes, which it really shouldn't be. Onetwothreeip (talk) 20:59, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I only saw this comment now. I agree that a split could work well, but how it was done now wasn't clear and resulted in me for example restoring an Algerian family. Also we should workout in families where two members play for different countries (for example Christian Vieri playing for Italy and Max Vieri for Australia) under which continent they should be and what to do in the other continent or just to double the information. Anyway, would suggest taking this to WT:FOOTY for more opinions. --SuperJew (talk) 09:14, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

text: As to the question, I think if splitting, it should be by confederation as that is how most of soccer works. --SuperJew (talk) 09:16, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

text: I took the discussion to WT:FOOTY to get a broader discussion. You are welcome to comment there too :) --SuperJew (talk) 06:08, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Surely we would include them in both countries. I have no problem splitting the article by confederation. Onetwothreeip (talk) 07:20, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm just wondering, not sure about the consensus in such cases, but isn't including them in both a redundant repitition of information? --SuperJew (talk) 09:26, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Somewhat, but there's really no way around it. This isn't really much of a problem, I would assume the articles about the English football team and the German football team have essentially duplicated information about the 1966 World Cup final for example. Onetwothreeip (talk) 09:32, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

text: Not an issue. Happens all the time for all sorts of things. FIFA World Cup page probably lists all the past winners. Individual WC pages also list the winners. Country National Team page says they won it too. It's not  killing any extra trees.... ClubOranjeT 12:03, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  What you say makes sense. I was mostly thinking of it with all the talk lately at WT:FOOTY of not duplicating templates etc. Anyways, I think it's important in that case that when splitting we make sure to include everyone, as I feel it is quite easy in this case for information to get lost. --SuperJew (talk) 12:11, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

text: I'd probably favour split by FIFA confederation. It's a defined split with little in the way of interpretation to cause argument, unlike continent or other options where a country is in multiple places (Turkey?) or otherwise disputable ClubOranjeT 12:10, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Splitting the article 

message: Any chance we only include notable footballers on the list? Every player on the list should pass the criteria laid out (international or pros), else we could fill this up with thousands of amateur footballers. I think there's too many red links on the page otherwise. Let me know what you think.--Ortizesp (talk) 15:36, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with this completely. Since there aren't any objections, anybody can start to remove the entries without Wikipedia articles. This would also apply to removing entries with articles but whose relatives do not. Onetwothreeip (talk) 00:49, 26 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Only include notable footballers