Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/India men's national field hockey team at the 2012 Summer Olympics


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The result was   delete. Bearian (talk) 19:55, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

India men's national field hockey team at the 2012 Summer Olympics

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An article for a team in the Olympics? I don't find any notability in it. It's a subset of qualification page, and even after the Olympics, it would just contain content from two or more articles, nothing special. Secondly, there're 24 teams (men's and women's both) and in this way all would need articles, like Australia men's national field hockey team at the 2012 Summer Olympics, China women's national field hockey team at the 2012 Summer Olympics, etc. And I think countries with medal-prospective like Australia, Germany, Argentina, Netherlands, etc, are in better place to have such articles than India. undefined — Bill william compton Talk   03:26, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I may agree it would be great to create a medal-prospective team's article like Australia, but stop there. I must have never created this article if it was about any other sports of India in Olympics. India is always at the top of the table in the field of hockey, may not be at first all time. So if Australia, why not India? ask yourself please! Look here if you are concerned about India's presence in the Olympics and if you feel this article will go waste. -- ♪Karthik♫ ♪Nadar♫ 04:46, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Uh, pardon me, but the last time I checked they didn't even able to qualify for the Olympics in 2008. "India is always at the top of the table in the field of hockey", please mind the tense here, India has never got any medal in field hockey since 1980. Although, these facts are inconsequential for this discussion. undefined — Bill william compton  Talk   12:43, 5 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete. Under WP:NOLYMPICS, an article about India at the 2012 Summer Olympics would be notable, and an article about men's field hockey at the 2012 Summer Olympics would be notable. But narrowing the topic to India in men's field hockey at the 2012 Summer Olympics would probably not be considered notable. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:51, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment Karthikndr, India might be at the top of the table, agreed, and Australia might have an article. However, just because something exists on Wikipedia, it alone isn't reason enough for something else to exist. I'd like to find some sources to backup the article. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 05:05, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Rsrikanth, there's no such article for Australia or any other nation. undefined — Bill william compton  Talk   12:43, 5 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete. This page is just a subset of the upcoming qualification and/or tournament page/s. In addition, the content does not describe what the article title promises; instead it's kind of a sports result report for India. HandsomeFella (talk) 09:34, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment. Although I am new to Wikipedia and contributing, articles such as this seem to be very informative and helpful to fans of such large and notable events.  I would suggest that this article be merged into another 2012 Olympic Teams article (or something similar), but I do not know where that type of article would be, in all honestly.  LogicalCreator (talk) 12:09, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
 * LogicalCreator, the information present in this article is already there at the qualification page, so we're not losing anything by deleting it. undefined — Bill william compton  Talk   12:43, 5 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Merge WP:NOLYMPICS suggests it's not inherently notable; if they do something special, maybe they will become notable, but that's the problem with articles about future events. Therefore should be merged into more general article, e.g. Men's field hockey Qualifying Tournaments for the 2012 Summer Olympics or India at the 2012 Summer Olympics. --Colapeninsula (talk) 13:56, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 19:15, 5 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete. Metropolitan90 is exactly right: Men's field hockey Qualifying Tournaments for the 2012 Summer Olympics, Field hockey at the 2012 Summer Olympics and India at the 2012 Summer Olympics are the loci in which consensus has determined this information should be organized.  Event-by-country pairings are not considered a sufficiently notable intersection to warrant individual articles. Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 19:34, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
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