Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Athletics at the 1993 Games of the Small States of Europe

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The result was keep. Randykitty (talk) 16:45, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Athletics at the 1993 Games of the Small States of Europe[edit]

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No evidence of notability for this list of results for a minor competition with unremarkable results. For example, searching for the winner of the 10.000m, Lahcen Essoussi gives a tiny handful of hits, the best being a non-independent source of the Monegasque Athletics Federation confirming his medals[1] but nothing further about him[2]. If even the winner of an event (plus another medal) is so completely lacking in coverage, then it seems unlikely that this received much coverage beyond routine results reports. Fram (talk) 08:56, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Events, Sports, Europe, and Malta. Fram (talk) 08:56, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep – Athletics at the Games of the Small States of Europe are arguably notable even if the results are generally not world class. This part of a long-standing series of events the recent editions of which are widely covered in media of the participating countries (though not always in English, as only Malta and Cyprus are partly English-speaking). I've dug some contemporary Icelandic coverage for some days of the competition which doesn't just list the results. [3] [4] [5]. Unfortunately Iceland is the only participating country with a free newspaper archive, but I expect the Games would also get the coverage in the others, as they do today. Also, even if some events have unknown winners, there are many Olympians that have competed at these Games, e.g. Anninos Marcoullides, Eggert Bogason, Pétur Guðmundsson or Marios Hadjiandreou. In addition, we do have some coverage of similar scale events, Island Games or Pacific Games, so I don't see why we shouldn't cover these Games too, at least showing the medallists. Pietaster (talk) 09:09, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, WJ94 (talk) 10:02, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per Pietaster. --Doncram (talk,contribs) 05:49, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per the above two comments. InterstellarGamer12321 (talk | contribs) 07:30, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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