Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kaspiysk bid for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

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The result was delete. JohnCD (talk) 23:23, 18 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Kaspiysk bid for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics[edit]

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Fails WP:GNG (see also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abuja bid for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics). A speculated bid that was never submitted to the IOC, and thus never became an official bid for the games. The article essentially says that they explored bidding, but decided against, and then has some irrelevant info on Russia's past Olympic bids. This info can just be included on the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics page. This is the way that it is done on other bid pages, example 2020 Summer Olympics and 2022 Winter Olympics, not to mention the ones that have already been awarded. No indication why this proposed/speculated bid is any more notable than the hundreds that have come before it. If anything the Youth Olympics are far less notable, and a potential bid would likely have almost zero coverage, where as a potential olympic bis, say Quebec City or even Ostersund, would have way more coverage (and probably way more coverage than an actual bid for the Youth Olympics too). Note that I boldly redirected these back to the main page as a compromise, but this was reverted by the original author. Bringing to AfD as I'm not convinced that even a redirect is needed. Ravendrop 21:56, 11 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Russia-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:12, 12 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:13, 12 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. The Summer Youth Olympics themselves are barely notable, much less the bids for them, and much, much less unrealized bids for them. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 02:28, 12 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Do not Delete The Youth Olympic Games are notable. Just because the average wikipedia viewer may be clueless on the subject. There are still people who follow the Olympics on a daily basis and the article is important. A bid was arranged. It just was not submitted. Deleting the article would be illogical. They Youth Olympics may not to notable to some of you but it is to others. --MusicGeek101 (talk) 03:26, 12 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The article's refs are to obscure olympic-related websites/blogs, not to mainstream news/sports sources, though there may be better refs in Russian media. However, the page could easily be merged into other articles, as it is very short and much of the content is irrelevant (the section "Previous bids from other Russian cities" is almost the same size as the section on the actual bid). So it's a question of whether it's better to keep the page separate or to incorporate the brief amount of properly-sourced material elsewhere. --Colapeninsula (talk) 14:44, 12 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This is simply not encyclopedic material. DGG ( talk ) 02:47, 17 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete -- The sources available, in English at least, are not of the nature to meet WP:GNG, if even meeting WP:RS at all. Hoppingalong (talk) 21:22, 18 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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