Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:List of Olympiads

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 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was: Moved to Draft:List of science olympiads, then redirected to International Science Olympiad. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 18:58, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

Draft:List of Olympiads


Wikipedia is not a repository of links. Despite the name of the draft, this is not a list of olympiads, but a list of external links to olympiads (as stated in the first sentence). A list of olympiads already exists at List of mathematics competitions. —  Newslinger  talk   14:05, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete - I agree about the WP:NOT assessment and the redundancy. A proper list article would instead link to other articles (and require one to exist for a list entry to exist), like at List of mathematics competitions.  It otherwise becomes a platform for promotion.  — Paleo  Neonate  – 19:35, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Move without leaving a redirect to Draft:List of science olympiads, then redirect it to International Science Olympiad. There may or may not be some sort of content in this draft to merge into that article, so leaving the history visible may be beneficial and does no harm. — Godsy (TALK CONT ) 21:24, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I also support this. — Paleo  Neonate  – 22:31, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Move without leaving a redirect to Draft:List of science olympiads, then redirect it to International Science Olympiad. Unlikely to reach mainspace like that, but is directed towards improving that mainspace article. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 22:27, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Move as suggested just above; then merge into the main article, not just redirect.  DGG ( talk ) 20:17, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I notified the target article editors, here: Talk:International_Science_Olympiad.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 20:30, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete: Unless I'm missing something here, this website shows a copyright on most of this content. Am I missing something in this last hour for me? Waggie (talk) 05:34, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
 * A list of websites on a topic is not copyrightable. To be copyrightable it must be creative content.  That said, it is not suitable for direct addition, and as a copy, someone working on the article(s) is better advised to work directly from the source, https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php?title=Olympiad_Archive.  This is why I recommend "redirect".  It doesn't need to be deleted, but someone may find something in it that is not obvious right here and now.  MfD is not for making article content decisions.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 05:48, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you, SmokeyJoe. I am certainly aware that a simple list of websites on a topic is not copyrightable. However the whole first paragraph of the draft was copied verbatim from the above link along with the uncopyrightable list content. That paragraph, being creative content (more or less, even if it's just a description of the following list), is copyrightable unless I"m really missing something entirely. As such, the article as a whole (with the non-copyvio bit being just a list of websites), fails to meet inclusion standards. Thus, my recommendation for speedy delete. Waggie (talk) 06:14, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Beware copyright paranoia. Agree that the page should go. I think it is ok, and best, to put the current content behind a redirect. However, if we agree to delete with a note that it is a copy of that website, that works ok too. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 21:41, 11 August 2018 (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 page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.