Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/International Medicine Olympiad


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The result was delete.  MBisanz  talk 22:44, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

International Medicine Olympiad

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Restored as a contested PROD but there's honestly actually nothing for any independent notability and substance, searches are not finding anything actually better and there's nothing at all from the current information to suggest there would be hopeful and meaningful improvements. SwisterTwister  talk  23:00, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

Please refer to the official website of the International Medicine Olympiad: http://www.medicineolympiad.org, as well as another website that documented all 3 days of the competition, with photos, competition rules, and competition results: http://www.bioagents.org. This is the biggest international competition in medical biology for high school students that is generating enormous interest in China and America. Please define "independent notability" and "substance", and I will be able to demonstrate them to your satisfaction, as someone who independently investigates and reports on higher education in America and Asia. For the importance of this competition to high school students who may look to wikipedia for information on similar high school competitions, please refer to the following: JL905 JL905 (talk) 02:27, 20 October 2016 (UTC)


 * What we need for independent notability and substance is actual in-depth third-party news sources and substance, and not simply something the company influenced or PR-initiated, and it seems there is none thus the considered deletion. SwisterTwister   talk  04:40, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

As a journalist, I received news releases from competitions such as the USA Math Olympiad, USA Physics Olympiad, and USA Chemistry Olympiad. ALL the information reported in third-party news sources is company influenced and PR-related, without exception. The same must be true for international competitions. Should we consider all the wikipedia pages for these competitions for deletion? If not, may I ask why not? JL905 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 05:05, 20 October 2016 (UTC)


 * JL905 - There is no doubt other articles exist that shouldn't, many arguments are invalid in these discussions, see WP:ATA and save much typing. WP:RS will detail what references are acceptable, Discovery, Scientific American or any editorially reviewed magazine like these would be acceptable, if not available then subject is not notable. You can continue to improve the article Cotton2 (talk) 06:39, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Thank you, Cotton2. Per Wikipedia's explanation of what counts as a reliable source, "Editors may also use material from reliable non-academic sources, particularly if it appears in respected mainstream publications. Other reliable sources include: ... Mainstream newspapers". I found a news article in a mainstream newspaper, the World Journal, which, again per Wikipedia, is "the largest Chinese-language newspaper in the United States". I have added the citation to the Wikipedia article on the International Medicine Olympiad, and I respectfully ask Wikipedia editors to remove the article from consideration for deletion. Thank you. FYI, I do not work at the World Journal. JL905 (talk) 11:24, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. Gabe Iglesia (talk) 19:15, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. Gabe Iglesia (talk) 19:15, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. North America1000 12:35, 23 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete Absolutely no RS available to support anything under the GNG/SNG universe. I recommend a WP:SOFTDELETE here due to absolute lack of sources. No use re-listing this Afd again (and wasting away our volunteers' time for another week, for this to close as no consensus). Lourdes  03:20, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
 * delete - looked for independent sources and found only scattered references to these event in a few "local kid does good" stories, in small, local papers. fails GNG. Jytdog (talk) 14:38, 27 October 2016 (UTC)


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