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The result was delete. LFaraone 01:09, 26 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Full FIFA World Rankings (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)

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PROD contested by IP who said "Because I don't want the page deleted." This article is not only superfluous to FIFA World Rankings, but I understand that a full list could well violate copyright, and this discussion from July 2012 seemed to conclude that such a list was not needed/wanted. GiantSnowman 10:43, 18 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. GiantSnowman 10:46, 18 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. The FIFA Terms of Service says "FIFA Content is provided to You AS IS and may not be used, reproduced, distributed, transmitted, broadcast, displayed, sold, licensed or otherwise exploited for any other purposes than their access and usage on the Website. For that sole and exclusive purpose, FIFA grants to You a limited, revocable, non-exclusive licence to access and use the Website privately for non-commercial purposes, in accordance with these Terms." The full rankings are also published by Soccerway (see here) and also here so I'm not sure how strictly FIFA enforce their copyright. -- Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 12:20, 18 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think it matters for us, as U.S. copyright governs here, which doesn't recognize database rights and I think would treat these rankings as uncopyrightable fact. postdlf (talk) 16:38, 18 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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• Delete - Wikipedia is not the place for something like this. If people want to find out the correct FIFA rankings, they should go to FIFA.com, which is linked from the article we already have about the rankings themselves. – PeeJay 10:36, 19 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: I don't understand the point of directly copying the rankings from another website. What does that add to Wikipedia with nothing new especially if people would likely go to the website that the article copied? SL93 (talk) 18:57, 19 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge information into FIFA World Rankings. NickSt (talk) 10:06, 20 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • There is literally nothing in this article that should be merged. – PeeJay 16:36, 20 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Superfluous and a possible copyright violation. Not to mention ugly. Walls of Jericho (talk) 23:11, 21 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - Wikipedia -> WP:NOTSTATS -- Whpq (talk) 15:20, 24 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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