Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2022 World Athletics Half Marathon Championships

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The result was redirect to World Athletics Half Marathon Championships with the history preserved under the redirect as there is no reason not to. Star Mississippi 01:55, 15 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

2022 World Athletics Half Marathon Championships[edit]

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Only information is that event was cancelled, so will be a permanent stub article. Doesn't pass WP:GNG Joseph2302 (talk) 13:28, 31 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sports and China. Joseph2302 (talk) 13:28, 31 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I'd say merge to World Athletics Half Marathon Championships but all the information in the article is already there. GoldenRing (talk) 13:45, 31 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Goldenring & nom. Waggers TALK 15:51, 31 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
redirect rather than delete. i do not have a specific preference regarding whether the article should be kept or not, but i think it would be better to convert it into a redirect rather than simply delete it. whenever similar annual events have been cancelled due to the pandemic and there was not already an article on that year's event, i have noticed that a common practice is to create a redirect to the main event article and include the redirect in the appropriate category of events cancelled due to the pandemic, as seen here.
although i think that, at this point, i am the editor who has contributed most to the prose that has remained, i am not particularly attached to the prose, and most of the information is already in the main event article anyway. (as an aside, i think this subject actually does pass wp:gng, but i do not think it passing wp:gng should be dispositive, as much of the discussion is about plans for an event that never happened.) however, at the time i updated the article to reflect the event's cancellation, i did not think that it would be appropriate for me to unilaterally delete the article or convert it into a redirect, as i believe there is precedent for keeping such stubs, as seen with 2020 Evian Championship, 2020 IHF Super Globe, and 2020 European Athletics Championships. (the history for the last one may be interesting, as it shows two attempts at converting it into a redirect that were reverted.)
i assume that, whatever the outcome of this discussion is, the same should probably similarly apply to other comparable stubs. would it be appropriate to convert this into a nomination for multiple articles? i admittedly do not spend much time at afd, so i am unfamiliar with the procedures here. also, the number of articles in the Sports events cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic category seems daunting, and articles such as The Boat Race 2020, a featured article, should probably be weeded out of such a nomination. however, it would be nice to get some guidance regarding how to proceed with such stubs going forward. dying (talk) 04:29, 1 September 2022 (UTC) [note: hilariously, two of the stubs i listed above have since been turned into redirects, almost certainly due to my pointing them out. in any case, the existence of many other such stubs, at the time i edited the article currently under discussion, is why i had not unilaterally turned this article into a redirect, so the point still stands. also, the fact that they were converted into redirects rather than nominated for deletion supports my overall argument. dying (talk) 10:44, 7 September 2022 (UTC)][reply]

Redirect is fine. As for the other articles listed, there are loads of redirects in that category, and the existence of other permanent stubs isn't a reason to keep this- it's a reason to get rid of them too, in my opinion. But there are so many cancelled sports events that everything cannot be looked at immediately. Joseph2302 (talk) 07:46, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- oh, i agree that "the existence of other permanent stubs isn't a reason to keep this", as per wp:ose. however, i disagree that "it's a reason to get rid of them too", also as per wp:ose. in addition, i do not think that everything needs to be looked at immediately, and i apologize if that appeared to be what i was proposing. however, i think there is merit in including perhaps one or two permanent stubs from each sport in an afd nomination of multiple articles to obtain a decent consensus regarding what action (if any) should be taken with such stubs going forward, so that no additional editor time is wasted with future cancellation updates if these stubs will end up being merged, redirected, or deleted anyway. i had been thinking of making such a nomination myself, but quickly realized that having my first afd nomination be a complex nomination of multiple articles does not seem like a good idea. dying (talk) 10:44, 7 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Relisting to consider a redirect to World Athletics Half Marathon Championships.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:32, 7 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to World Athletics Half Marathon Championships. I think redirecting makes sense here. Simeon (talk) 19:34, 8 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to World Athletics Half Marathon Championships (with the history preserved under the redirect) per Wikipedia:Deletion policy#Alternatives to deletion. A redirect will allow for a selective merge and for the redirect to be undone if significant coverage in reliable sources is found in the future.
Cunard (talk) 09:14, 12 September 2022 (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.