Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Athletics at the 2010 South American Games – Women's 4 x 400m relay


 * 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   merge to Athletics at the 2010 South American Games. There are several incidents of individual sports events being broken out into standalone articles, though sometimes, as with this one, there is little sense of the benefit gained, especially when the sub-article mainly repeats the information contained in the parent article. Such practise is contrary to guidelines - see WP:Sports event and WP:AVOIDSPLIT as well as the spirit of  WP:Not, WP:MERGE and WP:Stub which indicates that articles which do not have obvious potential to grow are probably best not being created, or if they are created then they should be merged. If there were a gain of material, then splitting is appropriate, but splitting simply to duplicate the material into a new place is not helpful. There are some items of information contained in this article which can be easily incorporated in the parent article (the finishing times), but mostly it is repetition. I would support anyone going through Category:Athletics at the 2010 South American Games and merging where appropriate.  SilkTork  *YES! 16:36, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Athletics at the 2010 South American Games – Women's 4 x 400m relay

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There are a whole string of articles based on one this set of games. There is not much notable about the specific event itself, and it surely belongs as part of the main article, where the bulk of the detail currently exists. This seems to be contrary to WP:Encyclopaedic and is something more akin to a specific sports or athletic site. billinghurst  sDrewth  02:47, 9 July 2010 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:01, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep As part of an established series of articles for events like this (Olympics, Commonwealth Games, etc).  Lugnuts  (talk) 17:04, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:14, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Merge and Delete per nom. Maashatra11 (talk) 18:26, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
 * What about all the articles in the parent category?  Lugnuts  (talk) 19:09, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
 * They should all be merged into a parent article IMHO. Maashatra11 (talk) 19:14, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I feel that these individual events are like the individual dates issues, and not notable as individual events, instead as the collection. I would support them being moved to the Portal namespace and then organising them as subpages, allowing the article on the 2010 South American Games to act as the encyclopaedic article.  With regard to the Olympic Games, Commonwealth games etc. I would believe that the bulk of the articles fall into the same category, and that there may be an article or two that is notable within each games that could stand as an notable article itself. billinghurst  sDrewth  23:20, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree with the above comment by User:billinghurst. Maashatra11 (talk) 23:32, 19 July 2010 (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.