Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1996 Summer Olympics medals per capita


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The result was delete both.  An as  talk? 17:50, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

1996 Summer Olympics medals per capita

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As a member of the Olympics WikiProject, I can safely say that this page has no place in the encyclopedia. While it was a creative attempt at manipulating medal statistics, it certainly does not have any standing. This page only serves as an opposing point of view to the 1996 Summer Olympics medal count page, which is the way that the IOC tabulates the medal count. And besides the fact that it is not a widely accepted format, the page offers little source material and suggests no possibility of future expansion.

The following similar article is being nominated for the same reason:

— └ Jared ┘┌ t ┐&ensp; 18:06, 29 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete - Useless page, obviously just created by a POV pusher that wanted to see (insert least favourite large medal-hogging country here) moved further down the list underneath their own. Non-encyclopdic OR. --Maelwys 18:11, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete both - clearly an attempt to insert POV under the disguise of NPOV. Problematic because the implied mathematical correlation between the two numbers is flawed.  For example, "number of medals" can't be used as a measurement of how "good" a nation is at Olympic sports; perhaps only just at "sports that offer a lot of medals".  One nation could potentially win 58 medals in swimming, yet only two in football.  Also, a single athlete can skew the results significantly, such as Kirsty Coventry who won three swimming medals for Zimbabwe in 2004.  I don't think the size of Zimbabwe's population had as much to do with their ranking by this method as the natural talent and training of this specific individual.  Andrwsc 19:28, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Merge into the medal count page and delete or just delete. Since I'm not an expert on the topic, I'd take the recommendations to delete.  Corpx 19:57, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete WP:NOT --TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 19:58, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, among other problems there is a natural limitation on the number of medals that can be won even by a large national Olympic team. This analysis simply favors small countries (like the top one, Bahamas). That country sent 24 athletes to the 2004 Olympics, almost 1 in 1000 Bahamian citizens. If the US were to send a team in those proportions, we would send 200,000 athletes, and likely win proportionally. It's simply an artificial measurement. --Dhartung | Talk 20:07, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Medals per capita?  Yeouch.  WP:OR and WP:NOT apply here.   Ark yan  &#149; (talk) 20:52, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete both. Nothing but original research with no comprehensive encyclopaedic interest.  Parutakupiu  talk 22:32, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Social science-related deletions.   -- John Vandenberg 15:30, 2 July 2007 (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.