Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mali at the 2006 Winter Olympics


 * 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 Speedy delete, WP:SNOW. NawlinWiki 17:48, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Mali at the 2006 Winter Olympics

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There was an article exactly the same as this but was about Ghana (only difference, obviously, was that Ghana was substituted for Mali) and my prod was successful. The person that contested this prod made no comment as to why they contested it and made no improvement to the article. My thinking is that it is not necessary to have an article saying Mali didn't participate. One only need look at the article on that Olympics and see who participated to figure out who didn't participate. I would imagine that there is somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 countries that didn't participate - maybe more, maybe less but the idea is that there are MANY countries that didn't participate - as well as in other Olympic Games. If we had individual articles for every country that didn't participate, well, it would just be ridiculous and a waste of time and space. Postcard Cathy 10:45, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete unless it can be shown that the non-participation was notable. cab 10:49, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete we don't need an article to say x country didn't particpate at x games! Lugnuts 11:20, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per cab, the "article" in its current form couldn't be more useless. Punkmorten 11:21, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per Postcard and Lugnuts. Here I was, expecting a Cool Runnings type story (Jamaican bobsled team in '88) and I get something on the lines of List of Protestant Popes.  Mandsford 11:42, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. per everyone, and per Mandsford's point as well. We do not need articles on what did not happen. -- Charlene 12:09, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * We do not need articles on what did not happen. Are you sure?! What about List of Wikipedians who didn't do any edits on the 15th July 2003? ;) Lugnuts 12:22, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I prefer List of Wikipedians who are not going to the Calgary Stampede Parade, myself. -- Charlene 12:31, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * More pertinent would be List of Wikipedians who think they're going to get some sort of award from Jimbo for creating the greatest number of completely pointless and meritless articles.   RGTraynor  14:33, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * omigod, does that mean I missed the end of the world!?  Big Nate 37 (T) 16:38, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Pointless. Number   5  7  15:49, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete although with a complete collection of articles on which countries did not participate in each of the modern olympics we may get our 2 millionth article faster and one that no one will want to vandalize. Carlossuarez46 17:16, 6 July 2007 (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.