Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of world records in indoor rowing


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  10:46, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

List of world records in indoor rowing

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Fails WP:INDISCRIMINATE. There is only a single authoritative source for this information; the listing maintained by Concept2 at https://www.concept2.co.uk/indoor-rowers/racing/records/world. This list is just a data dump from there, with trivial format changes.

It's also out of date, and hopelessly unmaintainable. Just doing some spot checks of the Lightweight Women:


 * Luanne Suplick's 60 minute record has apparently been overturned (discussion on c2 blog). Nobody picked up on that and corrected the article.


 * Anna Lewis's 30 minute record was beaten in 2019 by Lorraine Walker. Nobody picked up on that.


 * Asmaa Al Zohairy's 4 minute record is beaten by four different entries in various age groups over the span from 2016 to 2019. Again, nobody noticed.

So, for the three entries that I looked at, all three are wrong. In theory, I suppose it's possible that this could be kept up to date, but the sheer volume of data makes it a practical impossibility, so fails WP:V. We add no value by presenting this information; the Concept2 site does a better job and is authoritative on keeping it up to date. -- RoySmith (talk) 02:02, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
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 * Delete Appears to be advertisement for a particular brand of rowing machine, no third-party sources establishing why indoor rowing on machines from other manufacturers doesn't count. Reywas92Talk 02:54, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Well, to be fair, that part is true. There simply isn't any brand competition at serious rowing training facilities, worldwide.  But the real problem in my mind is the fact that this is an unmaintained, and unmaintainable, data dump.  -- RoySmith (talk) 03:08, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete Per WP:LISTN. The only source listing this information in this collective format is the company that makes these machines, not independent reliable sources. Newshunter12 (talk) 05:38, 4 May 2019 (UTC)


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