Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Denmark at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics
- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was procedural close.
As Smartyllama points out, it is long-standing consensus that such articles are created (cf. Template:Nations at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics). Since they are all pretty much the same, either they all fail WP:NOTSTATSBOOK and WP:GNG or they don't. An AFD for a single one of them is not helpful however and it will serve no purpose to continue this discussion if the underlying question whether such articles should exist at all is not addressed in general.
@Finnusertop and Mr. Guye: Feel free to start a discussion at the appropriate project talk pages to establish consensus whether such pages should exist at all (probably best in form of an RFC). Then - if consensus is in favor of deletion - they can all be handled consistently without having to start a discussion for each such article here.
Regards SoWhy 11:16, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
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I'm not entirely sure, but isn't it a little too soon? Even if it is approaching, if you can hardly say anything reliable, can it truly pass Wikipedia's notability guidelines? — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs) 03:38, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Denmark-related deletion discussions. — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs) 03:38, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs) 03:41, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. North America1000 04:33, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
- Comment For these major events, every nation gets a stand-alone article. Take a look at the countries in the template for {{2017 World Championships in Athletics Participating Nations}}, for example. I don't think this is too soon, as it's going to happen in 4 days from now. In other words, this AfD will have to last at least 7 days, and by then, this stub could easily be expanded with the full results, etc. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 07:39, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
- Comment The IAAF has released the entry lists, and there is a document on the official website that is very reliable. If the article is maintained, I can work on it to reach the standards of the other country articles. Wallinson (talk) 16:23, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
- Keep Every nation gets a standalone article for these things. There's no reason to pick this one off specifically. Also, even if it were too soon now, by the time this AfD closes, the championships will have started and it will clearly not be too soon. I suggest withdrawal. Smartyllama (talk) 12:40, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
- Comment: @Lugnuts and Smartyllama: which notability guidelines says that every nation should get a stand-alone article for events like this? Can you please point out the specific guideline. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 12:58, 5 August 2017 (UTC)
- Delete: keep votes have not shown the sources that establish WP:GNG, or that the article meets any other notability guideline. The article possibly also fails WP:NOTSTATSBOOK. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 16:20, 6 August 2017 (UTC)
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