Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Sailors at the Summer Olympics


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The result was   keep. Shi meru  05:57, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

List of Sailors at the Summer Olympics

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No indication of notability, a bolded out of context all caps message doesn't fix the fact there's no real content here. Shadowjams (talk) 08:04, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi, At this moment we are working on a upgrade on the articles of Sailing at the .... Summer Olympics (example: Sailing at the 1920 Summer Olympics). As spin-off of this, the list of Olympic sailing competitors is checked and redundancy where one person is known under different names during different Olympiads is taken out. The total list of Sailors will be in the end about 12000 names long. Therefore the same construction of setting this up is chosen as e.g. baseball with one main page (without content) and a possibility to jump to the correct letter in the alphabet. Also the subarticles per letter are created. At this moment the list(s) are up to date from 1896 to 1920. As you understand it takes some time to compleet the 30 Olympics.
 * So, I copied a format used in other directory articles, The list is building up while upgrading the sailing articles, this list is a starting point for alphabetical search. It takes some time to grow to the estimated 12000 sailors (devided over the subarticles.)
 * I can take the bold text off, but please advice how to address the request otherwize?
 * Regards, NED33 (talk) 08:53, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
 * For the list List of Sailors at the Summer Olympics: Q applies the same with the addition that this is one of the sup-pages that will be filled with one or mor sailors with the last name started with Q. Since sailing is also done in asia now I do know there will be entries.
 * Regards, NED33 (talk) 10:36, 10 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep. The topic has inherent nobility as an olympic sport and such lists have precedent in Wikipedia.  So long as it is properly sourced, it merits inclusion.  Movementarian (Talk) 12:05, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep Seems to be a work in progress, but since all Olympic athletes would be inherently notable under WP:ATHLETE, it's a perfectly legitimate topic, but the author really needs to take time to figure out what this should look like (like on a user page) before springing it on the world. The flags and the male/female distinction are good, but before you go much further, consider adding things like "1896" or "1920", and--- one doesn't have to be fancy on this-- some symbols to show which persons have won a medal.  For that, one could say 1896* for the gold, 1896** for silver, 1896*** for bronze, it's that easy.  Yes, I realize that many of these competed in more than one Olympiad, but taking care of it now will save a lot of problems in going back later.  I think what may have turned people off is that it's already divided into 26 little sub-articles called List of Sailors at the Summer Olympics: R and the like.  Give some thought to it before going further.  Mandsford 13:48, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Notable list of people from a notable event. However, the sandbox/userpage should be used first to construct something that's obviously going to take several days to put together.  Lugnuts  (talk) 18:02, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep and improve this list of notable athletes. Weakopedia (talk) 21:54, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:51, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:51, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
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