Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of multiple swimming medalist in international competitions


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The result was   delete. Cirt (talk) 19:20, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

List of multiple swimming medalist in international competitions

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Possibly WP:OR, however it is not fair to make such comparisons between athletes who are ineligible to compete at ALL of the championships discussed i.e. Australians and Americans cannot compete the the European Championships; Europeans cannot compete at the Pan Pacific Championships; etc. For a truly fair comparision, the championships should be: Olympics, World Champs, World SC Champs, European Champs (not SC), Pan-American Champs, African Champs, Oceanian Champs, Asian Champs. Furthermore, for the regional championships, they would need to be held with the same regularity, with the same history (i.e. European champs stated in the 1920s, but some regional champs started much much later) and the same number of events (i.e. not all champs include 50 metre events in all strokes, 800 m for men, 1500 m for women etc.) Yboy83 (talk) 09:22, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
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 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JForget  21:59, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
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 * Delete. I could understand compiling the lists of multiple medalists for each particular competition, but adding the medals won at all of these competitions verges on original research. I don't know what sources, if any, claim that adding the medals won at all of these competitions is a valid or useful way to compare swimmers. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 00:46, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
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