Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1938 World Men's Handball Championship


 * 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 redirect all (rolls up sleeves). Proto :: type  15:48, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

1938 World Men's Handball Championship
This article is nothing more than a rephrasing of the title and a bunch of templates at the bottom. I'm also nominating the following related articles for deletion as well (they are all identical except for the city name and the year: — Mets 501 (talk) 14:02, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1954 World Men's Handball Championship
 * 1958 World Men's Handball Championship
 * 1961 World Men's Handball Championship
 * 1964 World Men's Handball Championship
 * 1967 World Men's Handball Championship
 * 1970 World Men's Handball Championship
 * 1974 World Men's Handball Championship
 * 1978 World Men's Handball Championship
 * 1982 World Men's Handball Championship
 * 1986 World Men's Handball Championship
 * 1990 World Men's Handball Championship
 * 1993 World Men's Handball Championship
 * 1995 World Men's Handball Championship
 * 1997 World Men's Handball Championship
 * 1999 World Men's Handball Championship
 * 2009 World Men's Handball Championship
 * 1957 World Women's Handball Championship
 * 1962 World Women's Handball Championship
 * 1965 World Women's Handball Championship
 * 1971 World Women's Handball Championship
 * 1973 World Women's Handball Championship
 * 1975 World Women's Handball Championship
 * 1978 World Women's Handball Championship
 * 1982 World Women's Handball Championship
 * 1986 World Women's Handball Championship
 * 1990 World Women's Handball Championship
 * 1993 World Women's Handball Championship
 * 1995 World Women's Handball Championship
 * 1997 World Women's Handball Championship
 * 1999 World Women's Handball Championship
 * 2001 World Women's Handball Championship
 * 2003 World Women's Handball Championship
 * 2007 World Women's Handball Championship
 * 2009 World Women's Handball Championship
 * Delete and move to WP:BJAODN. SunStar Net 14:02, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * How is this a bad joke or nonsense? Please explain your reasoning. Caknuck 14:46, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * The original article is a copypaste SunStar Net 15:39, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * You are still not making any sense. These are legit sport events, it's just that it's not popular enough for a article of every single held event of it. AQu01rius (User | Talk | Websites) 16:24, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Copy&pasted from where? And the subject itself is good enough, there are articles for single seasons of college sports teams (eg. 2005 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team) and a World Championship is usually more notable than that. It's just that in their present state, the articles aren't useful. If someone wants to start a real article on the same subject, great. - Bobet 16:32, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * What I was implying was it's a rephrasing of the title with a template, which isn't a proper article, is it? SunStar Net 18:01, 28 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Merge all into one, or two articles (i.e. men/women). --Alex (Talk) 14:29, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. These are notable athletic events and should be present. However, each article should indicate (at the very least): medalists, countries participating, standings and the score of the championship game. Other useful information would be venues, MVPs (if awarded) and brackets. Caknuck 14:46, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Redirect all to World Men's Handball Championship / World Women's Handball Championship. The only piece of information each page contains is the country in which the event was held. The main articles contain more information about each event than these individual entries. It also seems unlikely these will be expanded. Also see Austria national handball team, Denmark national handball team etc. by the same creator. Prolog 16:10, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Redirect all. As mentioned by Prolog, these events are already indicated in the main article page. AQu01rius (User | Talk | Websites) 16:24, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Redirect per Prolog. If someone wants to write more about them, they can undo the redirect and start a real article that says something. Until then, having an article that's nothing more than a placeholder won't help anyone. - Bobet 16:32, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Redirect —  per Bobet -- lucasbfr talk 16:39, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Redirect all per Prolog. If anyone wants to create real articles, they can, but these are just sub-stubs, with no clear purpose demonstrated as yet. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:24, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Redirect. No point having placeholder articles. Hut 8.5 20:19, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Redirect all per above. -- NORTH talk 20:28, 28 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Keep all Stub articles that should grow in time. Event is notable, as is the sport.  Resolute 00:57, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Redirect all per above. -- Kf4bdy talk contribs 02:48, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Redirect all for now. Note this is different than outright deleting because if someone wants to actually include information other than year and location, they can easily do so. 23skidoo 02:51, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep all. These are legitimate stubs that ought to be expanded. We do not delete or redirect stubs just because they contain little information at present; it would be counterproductive. Some argue that these articles serve no purpose; if this is the criterion, then what "purpose" will be served by redirects? GregorB 20:21, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.