Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/India at the International Mathematical Olympiad


 * 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   redirect to International_Mathematical_Olympiad. Black Kite 01:18, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

India at the International Mathematical Olympiad

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While the International Mathematical Olympiad is notable, India's performance is not. StAnselm (talk) 01:25, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

I am also nominating the following related pages. All of these are about the Indian IMO team, and none of them demonstrate notability:
 * I have withdrawn this last one, due the presence of numerous individual country's olympiad articles - United States of America Mathematical Olympiad, Canadian Mathematical Olympiad, etc. I removed some unencyclopedic bits. StAnselm (talk) 07:51, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I have withdrawn this last one, due the presence of numerous individual country's olympiad articles - United States of America Mathematical Olympiad, Canadian Mathematical Olympiad, etc. I removed some unencyclopedic bits. StAnselm (talk) 07:51, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I have withdrawn this last one, due the presence of numerous individual country's olympiad articles - United States of America Mathematical Olympiad, Canadian Mathematical Olympiad, etc. I removed some unencyclopedic bits. StAnselm (talk) 07:51, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

StAnselm (talk) 01:32, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions.  —StAnselm (talk) 01:34, 17 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete: It might be possible to make a case for an article like this, after all there is an article for India at the Olympics. But for some reason the IMO doesn't get the same coverage in the media as the Olympic games and it seems unlikely that references to establish notability can be found.--RDBury (talk) 08:08, 18 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep: I think it ought to be kept. Will start searching for sources. Harsh (Mujhse bat kijiye(talk))
 * Delete the International Mathematical Olympiad Training Camp; it's only a training camp for Indian students, despite its name. Many countries have similar prep camps; at least all Eastern European ones used to. Merge and Redirect Regional Mathematical Olympiad to Indian National Mathematics Olympiad; the former is just a preliminary phase of the latter. Even small countries like Romania have such regional phases, nothing unusual or notable. Delete India  at the International Mathematical Olympiad. Had they consistently scored among the top places, the topic could be presumed notable, but ranking 13th or 25th isn't likely to have generated much press coverage. Pcap  ping  16:21, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment I have nominated (separately) for deletion International  Olympiad in Informatics Training Camp for the obvious reasons. Pcap  ping  16:32, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep: I'm a normal user. I was searching for Indians in IMO and found this page very useful. I noticed that there is a discussion going on for deletion, and so I'm putting a message here pointing out that I did find this page is useful. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.102.52.2 (talk) 21:26, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. But Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. StAnselm (talk) 07:26, 22 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Weak Keep. Verifiability cannot be the issue here: here is the official source. Like the hundreds of articles in Template:NationsinOlympics, I think an argument can be made for (possibly short) articles on each nation's performance at the IMO. In addition to the official table, it is also possible to find newspaper and magazine sources reporting on each year's performance. (The only reason I haven't done that already is because I'm unsure whether the article will be kept after all that.) I would argue that given the reputation of the IMO, this sort of information is worth keeping, though I know notability is not inherited. Shreevatsa (talk) 00:35, 26 February 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.