Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Olympic-size swimming pools in the United Kingdom


 * 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   No Consensus, defaulting to Keep, disagreement over whether this a valid list or not. Davewild (talk) 19:46, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

List of Olympic-size swimming pools in the United Kingdom

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Non notable list. Does not satisfy WP:Note RogueNinja talk  03:52, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete: Pointless article. WP:NOTDIR. – Jerry  teps  04:05, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment: I hardly think that constitutes a valid justification - would you care to elaborate? Nick Cooper (talk) 11:59, 4 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete Non notable list. Fails WP:N. Undeath (talk) 04:37, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete, I agree with the above. J I P  | Talk 06:26, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per above.  Black  ngold29   07:28, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep: A precisely defined list of notable sports venues. Possession of Olympic-size swimming pools is commonly used as a measure of a country's sports' infrastructure. --mervyn (talk) 08:07, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep: well-defined topic, important, as per Mervyn. Many different editors have contributed over 2.5 years to this well-established article: WP gains nothing by deleting it. PamD (talk) 08:35, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep: A precisely defined list of notable sports venues. --Vintagekits (talk) 11:46, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep: As per Mervyn, Pam D & Vintagekits. Like List of Olympic-size swimming pools in the Republic of Ireland (which RogueNinja has also proposed for deletion), it covers a subject of great importance within swimming in the country in question, due to the relative rarity of such venues in both. As noted above, I do not think those who wish to delete the page have presented anything remotely like a valid justication for doing so. Nick Cooper (talk) 11:59, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep: As per all the keep arguements given above. Dpmuk (talk) 13:00, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep: cannot understand the reasoning behind any of the deletes, so default to a keep. List has clear, unambiguous criteria and meets verifiability and NPOV policy. Possible case for No Original Research but I don't think so. Paulbrock (talk) 22:44, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * PS - I'm not going to repeat my comments on the Ireland AFD - they should clearly be nominated and discussed together - can someone cleanly combine the two? Paulbrock (talk) 22:46, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NOTDIR and WP:NOTCASE. Most of the listings are not internal links to other Wikipedia articles, but are external links to the sites of the pools themselves. Few pools, regardless of size, are truly notable. Sebwite (talk) 16:12, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep: As per various keeps above, notable subject within the country in question. Claire Bassett (talk) 19:24, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. What exactly makes these pools notable sports venues?  They may be venues, but no assert for nobility is provided. Being of a specific size in this case does not mean that anything notable happens there.  Vegaswikian (talk) 18:14, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - subject adequately covered by Category:Swimming venues in the United Kingdom.--PhilKnight (talk) 16:57, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep - these are surely the swimming equivalent of major football grounds and sports stadia, and thus notable: it is difficult to think that each of these pools, like major football grounds and sports stadia, would not merit an individual article. The usual objections apply to the "replace with category" argument: categories don't show missing articles, and a list allows quick comparison between different items, much quicker than having to go through very article in a category one after the other.HeartofaDog (talk) 17:15, 9 August 2008 (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.