Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of European Olympic medalists of African origin


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  08:48, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

List of European Olympic medalists of African origin

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This is a conflation of "black people" (Colin Jackson) and "people from Africa" (Alain Mimoun) and original research, and is not a reasonable list topic. power~enwiki ( π, ν ) 20:38, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

Article is divided between African and Americas background.
 * Keep - I am sorry, but did I miss something regarding Race stated within the list?  I didn’t see anything regarding "black people", just the names of the individuals who won either “Gold” – “Silver  or “Bronze” in the individual events and their representative countries.  All from the continent of Africa.  The list is well maintained, realizing that it is still recently new, variable – and sourced.  Are not these the guidelines for inclusion here at Wikipedia? ShoesssS Talk 22:16, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Some of the problems have been fixed by, but there are more; Gwladys Épangue was born in France. These problems exist because the list is WP:OR, and is a categorization that isn't a good topic for a WP:SAL article. power~enwiki ( π ,  ν ) 03:25, 14 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Zhan Beleniuk, for example, was born in Ukraine of one Ukrainian parent and one Rwandan parent. Given his parentage and place of birth, his origins are just as much Ukrainian (if not more so) as they are Rwandan.--TM 12:15, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

And what is wrong with that, she is French with Senegalese background --Backij (talk) 09:42, 14 July 2018 (UTC)
 * List title specifies "of African origin", not "of African background".  Tera TIX  05:19, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
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 * Delete as unencyclopedic. Could a full length article be written on the topic? I don't think so. Therefore, it is a non-notable combination of various characteristics.--TM 17:34, 14 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Comments I am not sure I get this list, it feels very WP:OR. Govvy (talk) 13:20, 15 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete: Unencyclopedic cross-categorization – see WP:NOTDIR #6.  Tera TIX  05:22, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete: you could make an argument for European athletes that were born in Africa, but why does this need to exist? Unless we were planning on doing a series of articles on athletes that we all born overseas (Even then, it'd be a WP:WALLEDGARDEN effect.)  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 07:42, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete - no evidence of notability. GiantSnowman 07:59, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep as per ShoesssS. This is a list which passes WP:LISTPEOPLE. I don't see a problem here. Senegambianamestudy (talk) 05:28, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete - trivial intersection of nationality, race, and sport accomplishments. The criteria for inclusion is rather vague, and even with the clean up there are still many individual articles that have no mention of supposed African ancestry. A pretty clear example of WP:LISTCRUFT. Inter&#38;anthro (talk) 12:36, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment - List of European medalists of Asian and Oceanian origin should probably also be nominated for deletion if this discussion is closed as such. Inter&#38;anthro (talk) 12:40, 20 July 2018 (UTC)


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