Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Most popular sport by country


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The result was DELETE. postdlf (talk) 23:11, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Most popular sport by country

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Article does not meet Wikipedia standards and is superfluous to existing articles Porterlu (talk) 18:41, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
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 * Question. Which existing articles? - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 19:50, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. Has defined criteria in the lead, but the sourcing is quite poor - the US ref doesn't seem to mention popularity at all, China's two refs only have a single sentence on popularity, Japan's ref appears to be based on a survey and not viewership, and India has no ref at all.  With better sourcing, I could see room for articles like Sports viewership by country or Sports participation by country perhaps, but I'm not convinced these, or indeed any criteria, are great ways to define "popularity".  FWIW, while researching I dug up an old AfD on a similar-sounding article that closed as delete, and among the concerns raised were the definition of popularity. BryanG (talk) 00:32, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. The article does not provide anything useful as is currently stands and in addition, it is unlikely to be useful at anytime in the future. As noted above, 'most popular' is going to be difficult to define and strikes me as unencyclopaedic.Thepm (talk) 01:45, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment The article, as is, is completely borked. *IF* it listed the countries, instead of the sports, then used some kind of unbiased metric (or metrics) to judge "popular", such as TV ratings and/or total tickets purchased, and allowed to show not just one but optionally more sports (ie: USA, NFL football+metric, Baseball+metric), then added countries one at a time according to the ability to find good sources, THEN it might be a useful article that meets the criteria.  The concept is valid, the execution is horrible.  Abstaining from !voting. Dennis Brown (talk) 14:22, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
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