Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bahrain at the Asian Games


 * 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   keep of all the articles. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 04:00, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Bahrain at the Asian Games
This nomination includes 38 articles (below). This is a set of articles created by en-mass by an indefinitely blocked user for sock puppet concerns. Case at Sockpuppet investigations/Polylepsis/Archive.

The ones nominated here, as of the nomination, have no substantive content other than the infobox and lead sentence. Of the original set, I've removed Syria and Afghanistan (and maybe some others) because they have actual content.

They fail WP:DIRECTORY, as well as generally being created by a banned editor (although I'd support the Keep of any articles with actual content). We don't need to encourage route, meaningless stub creation (in this case done by a problematic editor anyway) that has no content useful to any reader. I believe stubs are good scaffolding to build on, but the articles I've nominated don't have that.

Full list: Chinese Taipei at the Asian Games Jordan at the Asian Games Kyrgyzstan at the Asian Games Laos at the Asian Games Lebanon at the Asian Games Macau at the Asian Games Malaysia at the Asian Games Maldives at the Asian Games Mongolia at the Asian Games Myanmar at the Asian Games Nepal at the Asian Games North Korea at the Asian Games Oman at the Asian Games Pakistan at the Asian Games Palestine at the Asian Games Philippines at the Asian Games Qatar at the Asian Games Saudi Arabia at the Asian Games Singapore at the Asian Games Sri Lanka at the Asian Games Tajikistan at the Asian Games Thailand at the Asian Games Timor-Leste at the Asian Games Turkmenistan at the Asian Games United Arab Emirates at the Asian Games Uzbekistan at the Asian Games Vietnam at the Asian Games Yemen at the Asian Games Bangladesh at the Asian Games Bhutan at the Asian Games Brunei at the Asian Games Cambodia at the Asian Games Hong Kong at the Asian Games Indonesia at the Asian Games Iraq at the Asian Games Israel at the Asian Games Kazakhstan at the Asian Games Kuwait at the Asian Games Shadowjams (talk) 03:22, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

I appreciate the idea of a consistent style for a set of articles, and having a "scaffolding" in place for that, which is something I thought about before this nom. But I would weigh that against the wholesale creation of huge numbers of articles by problematic editors with no intent to expand them and no content. Shadowjams (talk) 20:31, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions.  —WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:28, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep all. WP:AFD is not WP:CLEANUP.  AfD is not a stub-expansion project.  AfD is not a place for destroying the good (if limited) work just because it was done by an editor banned for unrelated problems.  And it should be perfectly obvious to every editor that these are WP:Notable subjects, which means that deleting them would violate the actual deletion policy. Finally, if I were going to pick articles to delete, I'd have started with the year-by-year stubs, like the ones listed at Template:NOCin2009AsianIndoorGames.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:56, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep all While these articles may not be very useful right now, they will become more complete in time. See similar articles at "(country) at the Olympics".  Also, these are countries/regions which have fewer English wikipedia users, so they don't have the focus of an English language country or its users to quickly build the articles.  Finally, the status of the banned editor is not really relevent here. Cheers-Cbradshaw (talk) 05:45, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep all. If the user was indef blocked for problems specifically related to these articles - disrputive editing or some such - then yeah, I can see deleting. But the fact that some have been expanded should indicate that the others can be expanded as well. If there's some other factor that points to deletion for one or more articles (For example, if Brunei had never played in the Asian Games), then nominate those articles separately and let them be debated on the merits. UltraExactZZ Said~ Did 14:10, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep all. All these articles can be expanded and many will relate to medal winners. A blanket deletion would not be reasonable. Cjc13 (talk) 14:27, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * There is nothing to clean up. These are articles with 0 content. We're opening the door to any editor, in this case a banned one, to just come in and copy-paste create a huge number of zero content articles. For context, of the at least 40 created, 2 were expanded. This wasn't a first-day nomination either. These articles sat around for nearly a month before this nomination.
 * Comment did you ask WP:OLYMPICS to expand the articles? 76.66.194.32 (talk) 04:01, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Being snarky aside, which articles are you talking about that need expansion? Shadowjams (talk) 07:09, 26 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep all - no valid reason for deletion given, articles are notable and need expansion. matt91486 (talk) 01:19, 28 March 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.