Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Costa Rican records in swimming


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The result was  Keep. Ruslik_ Zero 15:47, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

List of Costa Rican records in swimming

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PROD contested. Wikipedia is not a sports almanac or collection of statistics. Stifle (talk) 13:14, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Niteshift36 (talk) 13:32, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions.  KuyaBriBri Talk 14:53, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  KuyaBriBri Talk 14:53, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment This and similar articles would probably be acceptable if they were renamed and refocussed. This would be better as  "Swimming in Costa Rica" (similar to Football in Costa Rica, and would need more emphasis on the sport  general rather than on making lists.  Unfortunately, the person who started these envisioned setting up a bunch of (retch)  subcategories called "Swimming in _______", each of which would then be a suppository for articles about swimming in a particular nation.  Instead, the category Category: Swimming by country would be sufficient to house all the articles, forget the dumb subcats.  Mandsford (talk) 17:51, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Question: Is there a reason Costa Rica's records are being singled out, and not all the National Records currently present? (i.e. Why hasn't anyone flagged the USA's National Records for deletion?) Hooperswim (talk) 19:41, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep - I don't see why this list is any less notable than similar country lists, such as List of United States records in swimming. If we are considering whether such lists should be deleted in general, then they should all be listed here.  Otherwise, there seems to be no reason to delete the Costa Rica list.  Although lists of national swimming records seems notable to me regardless.  That is not just a "collection of statistics." Rlendog (talk) 20:39, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep This seems perfectly encyclopaedic to me, and it's referenced to boot. Thryduulf (talk) 19:36, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
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