Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup/Men's Alpine Combined


 * 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 delete. It is fairly clear that these subpages fail WP:SUB as well as WP:NOTSTATS, and that the individual events are not covered in the parent article. I note that they also pretty much duplicate the external link that they are sourced from, which is copyrighted, so they may also be dubious on those grounds. If any editor would like the content userfying for use in an article that does not have these problems, please contact me or post at WP:REFUND linking to this AfD. Black Kite (talk) 18:37, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup/Men's Alpine Combined

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WP:SUB explicitly disallows "using subpages for permanent content that is meant to be part of the encyclopedia". As it stands right now, this page is just a list of statistics, which also goes against WP:NOTSTAT. The individual sub events are not specifically discussed in the parent article, either, only a summary of the Alpine Skiing World Cup as a whole. &mdash; Train2104 (t • c) 01:11, 4 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete - Nom sums it up pretty well, with the added note that...I thought this was supposed to be disabled by the software. Timothy Joseph Wood  14:28, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
 * The software disables subpages in mainspace, but all that means is that the entire pagename is treated as the title. There's no way for a computer to distinguish between a case like this and a case like OS and OS/2. &mdash; Train2104 (t • c) 14:57, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 21:02, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 21:02, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 21:02, 4 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete all for WP:NOTSTATS and a breach of WP:SUB. Ajf773 (talk) 21:22, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
 * KEEP of course! Almost all sport pages have sub-pages. Why not trying to improve the pages instead of destroying? Doma-w (talk) 18:08, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep I found these articles helpful in finding out how the season has progressed. There's definitely a place in Wikipedia for maintaining a record that includes results for events in each season. When one reads WP:NOTSTATS, the solution is to add to the tables to include text that has a narrative that describes the season, not to purge the useful content. WP:NOTSTATS doesn't seem to me to be an admonish that this content should purge from Wikipedia, but a guide as to how to present it. It's a "this is how it's kept" policy, not "delete all of this" policy. The second-best choice would be to merge the tables into articles that would preserve the information on Wikipedia, but place them in a combined context. Delete is a much worse choice than either of those alternatives. --JamesAM (talk) 20:05, 11 March 2017 (UTC)


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