Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Formula One career of Lewis Hamilton


 * 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. Salvio giuliano 19:41, 19 February 2023 (UTC)

Formula One career of Lewis Hamilton

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Unnecessary content fork of his own article. Tvx1 17:15, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. Tvx1 17:15, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Agree with the proposal to delete. It's too long and detailed. His career history is already adequately covered on the main Lewis Hamilton page. Koppite1 (talk) 17:36, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 19:37, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Comment: Hi, thanks for pinging me. For some context, my motivation for making the split in November 2019 was due to the extensive, maundering season reports in the original article. Initially, I did what I could to reduce these reports down, but it soon became clear that entirely new, summary-style reports were required. I wrote these new, shorter reports which are, I'm pleased to say, extant, broadly speaking, on the subject's main page today. This, of course, necessitated deleting the previous text elsewhere, or (as I thought was a better and less-controversial alternative at the time) simply moving them to a new article. Unfortunately, this article has not been well maintained and has become hugely bloated with poorly-written rambling season reports by no doubt well-meaning editors apparently unfamiliar with the adage "less is more". I'm not too fussed either way about whether it stays or goes, so long as the relevant section of the main article doesn't end up hideously bloated again or be updated following each Grand Prix weekend with another rambling paragraph. —Ave (talk) 20:00, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
 * I think the main article should be trimmed and indeed be more written with season reports and not race-by-race summaries. Many of his 2014-2020 wins were pretty uncontested with superdominant machinery and don't need a separate paragraph. Tvx1 21:12, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
 * the only way to stop the issues of a summary for every race is to visit the page regularly (every month?) and do an aggressive copyedit to move the style from fanpage to encylopedia. SSSB (talk) 08:15, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Agree. Motorsport articles in general are very bad for this type of WP:FANCRUFT, but unfortunately this seems to be the only, or least the most efficient way. - "Ghost of Dan Gurney" (work / talk) 02:36, 14 February 2023 (UTC)


 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Motorsport-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 23:25, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Lewis Hamilton. This article is full of excessive detail which mostly belongs in individual race articles. Certainly this is an unnecessary split from the main article, and I agree with the above discussion that it isn't the best way to handle excessive detail which should simply be removed. Of course content can be (very selectively) merged to Lewis Hamilton, or to season and race articles, as appropriate. A7V2 (talk) 23:39, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
 * If you can find the article, send me because I want to put in my user page. Izzlex94 verstappenchamp (talk) 11:42, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete - The title here is really not one that I feel is a plausible search target for someone wanting to arrive at Lewis Hamilton (why wouldn't someone just search for "Lewis Hamilton" instead?), which in my opinion would make a redirect inappropriate. Delete content as an excessively CRUFTy content fork. - "Ghost of Dan Gurney" (work / talk) 02:42, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete per above EnthusiastWorld37 (talk) 20:37, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Whoever has the article send me. I am not going to make the article again. Instead I will use it in my user space. Izzlex94 verstappenchamp (talk) 11:30, 20 February 2023 (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.