Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Republic of China at the 1952 Summer 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 Delete--Tone 10:16, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Republic of China at the 1952 Summer Olympics

I originally created this page for the results of the team that competed at the 1952 Games, mistakenly thinking that "China" in the official report referred to the team from the ROC instead of the PRC. When another editor created China at the 1952 Summer Olympics, I looked into it and discovered my error. I prodded this article (instead of deleting myself as I didn't think G7 was quite appropriate), but an anonymous IP editor removed the prod. My rationale for deletion is that all the articles in this series ("Nation at the year Olympics") are intended for the results of the teams that actually competed. Since the ROC withdrew before these Games, there are no results to report. The only content that could remain is better placed in articles like the main 1952 Summer Olympics article and the Chinese Taipei at the Olympics article, and I see that the anon. editor has actually made those edits. There is no additional or unique content that can be put in this article that isn't already described elsewhere, and it is confusing to have articles for teams that don't compete. We don't have Afghanistan at the 2000 Summer Olympics, for example, and when Brunei failed to appear in Beijing, we turned Brunei at the 2008 Summer Olympics into a redirect and added a fully referenced paragraph to the main article. I agree that the situation with PRC/ROC in 1952 is more complex than Brunei in 2008, but that does not warrant the need for a redundant "results" article. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 19:57, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Strong delete As stated, no point in having an article about something that didn't happen: the standard is not to have articles on "Nation in the Year Olympics" if they didn't compete (what would the point be of Gold Coast at the 2008 Summer Olympics?). Even stronger because the creator, a leading person in the Olympic wikiproject, wants to see this deleted. Nyttend (talk) 20:09, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete They did not compete, and the story is told at other articles already. Edison (talk) 20:18, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. The nominator's rationale is pretty solid. Parutakupiu (talk) 20:28, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Shouldn't exist Gary King (talk) 21:36, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to China at the 1952 Summer Olympics. --ApprenticeFan (talk) 10:12, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Delete is fine, but it's important to realise that deletion isn't needed in these situations. The nominator could simply have boldly redirected his or her article to China at the 1952 Summer Olympics. AndyJones (talk) 12:56, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Given the political situation between the PRC and ROC, I don't think it's a very good idea to redirect from one to the other... — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 14:52, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. The political situation would cause edit wars over a redirect, and the PRC is not the ROC. Add a paragraph to the main article, and I guess we could redirect to that. Bart133 ^{t c @ How's my driving?} 21:46, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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.