Talk:List of chess grandmasters by country

Is this list worth maintaining?

Note that the links to the detailed country statistics (e.g. Russia) are currently not working, so all of the "active" columns are pretty tedious to maintain. The last column is even more so. I can see a ranked list of GMs and maybe even active GMs satisfying the notability criteria, but IMs and titled players in general? (Not to mention the article should be renamed if we keep those columns.) Cobblet (talk) 10:46, 18 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I think it is not worth maintaining, but if someone wants to do it I wouldn't try to stop them. If no one wants to do it then it should simply be deleted. I really dislike these current almanac style articles. There's no reason an encyclopedia should place greater weight on the number of GMs per country today than the the number of GMs in 2000 or 1980 or 1960. Wikipedia is not a newspaper. Quale (talk) 02:36, 20 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that this article should be deleted if nobody updates every column regularly. Sophia91 (talk) 16:35, 23 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You could never have any faith in the figures being correct. As Quale suggests, of more use would have been a 10 yearly snapshot census, or similar, to show how the data changes with time. This construction looks far too onerous to maintain. Brittle heaven (talk) 19:50, 23 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with previous views. Don't really see a need for it. Maybe some form of it could be brought into Grandmaster (chess) but don't have any firm proposals on that. Jkmaskell (talk) 20:25, 23 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

OK. I think I'll redirect this to List of chess grandmasters which is sortable by country. Cobblet (talk) 06:27, 28 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]