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
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This does not meet the criteria in
Wikipedia:Notability. The article was created when there was speculation about what impact the pandemic would have on the games, but has blown out of proportion. We now know that the games will not be held on the date originally planned, so the short paragraph on that can be moved to the main page for the
2020 Summer Olympics if it's not already there. The rest of the article is piecemeal coverage about qualifiers in individual countries.
jamacfarlane (
talk)
00:25, 25 March 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete/merge This frenzy to list every item in the news in the encyclopedia does not require this page: "Everything was canceled or postponed" gets you the gist. Details can go in the main Olympics page, the individual event pages, and the Impact on Sports page.
Reywas92Talk06:38, 25 March 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete/merge selectivwly merge the important information into the Olympics page. We don't need a separate page for this. Frankly the number of "Impact of coronavirus on X" pages are getting silly.
Joseph2302 (
talk)08:02, 25 March 2020 (UTC)reply
Comment "piecemeal coverage about qualifiers in individual countries" is not true. It's not about individual countries but about the international Olympic qualification tournaments. This information should be kept together.
31.201.130.50 (
talk)
08:29, 25 March 2020 (UTC)reply
Redirect to
2020 Summer Olympics; there is just about nothing to say except that it was postponed to 2021. It would make much more sense just to discuss the qualifying tournaments in the article in which they would normally be discussed, because all the upcoming ones have been postponed. This is really an indiscriminate list.—
Naddruf (
talk ~
contribs)
21:58, 25 March 2020 (UTC)reply
There are more self-contained things that could be broken out to reduce the page size. All the tables of venues is a good candidate—that just breaks up the flow of the article.
SpinningSpark01:12, 28 March 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep: The reality of the situation is that the coronavirus epidemic will have significant and lasting flow-on effects on many aspects of society, both large and small. If there is significant widespread coverage of the smaller things being affected, then there isn't really any reason to exclude it on the basis that it's a smaller matter than much more important issues;
Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia, and we can afford to go into more minute detail on very specific topics. As an example of a similar "smaller issue" affected by the coronavirus pandemic, see
Impact of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic on the video game industry. --
benlisquareT•
C•
E07:09, 30 March 2020 (UTC)reply
WP:WikiProject Military History consists of editors who are skilled on writing articles about military history, and focus on writing articles about military history;
WP:WikiProject Video games consists of editors who are skilled on writing articles about video games, and focus on writing articles about video games;
WP:WikiProject Sports consists of editors who are skilled on writing articles about sports, and focus on writing articles about sports.
There is nothing strange about editors who specialise within niche areas to write about how a major global event has affected their specific niche interest, as long as what they're writing meets
WP:N,
WP:V,
WP:RS, and
WP:NPOV. --
benlisquareT•
C•
E17:10, 30 March 2020 (UTC)reply
Yes I understand there are specialisms. And I understand sport- I actually have a sport DYK on the front page right now. And I don't believe the article is needed, because the relevant information (the Games postponement, torch relay) can go in the main
2020 Summer Olympics article and the postponement of qualifying can go in all the appropriate qualifying articles.
Joseph2302 (
talk)18:24, 30 March 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete/merge: While it is clear that the unprecedented postponement of the Summer Olympics is worth noting, I don't see any reason for us to create another page or Wikipedia entry entirely devoted to that matter. A lot of sporting events other than the Olympics have either cancelled or postponed as well, including the qualifying rounds for most of Olympic sports. It's better to briefly include a section in the main Tokyo 2020 page about the postponement, and merge other important details (e.g. qualifying events that got cancelled) into one entry outlining the impact of Coronavirus in sports in general.
Jpbpunzalan (
talk)
14:09, 30 March 2020 (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.
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.
This does not meet the criteria in
Wikipedia:Notability. The article was created when there was speculation about what impact the pandemic would have on the games, but has blown out of proportion. We now know that the games will not be held on the date originally planned, so the short paragraph on that can be moved to the main page for the
2020 Summer Olympics if it's not already there. The rest of the article is piecemeal coverage about qualifiers in individual countries.
jamacfarlane (
talk)
00:25, 25 March 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete/merge This frenzy to list every item in the news in the encyclopedia does not require this page: "Everything was canceled or postponed" gets you the gist. Details can go in the main Olympics page, the individual event pages, and the Impact on Sports page.
Reywas92Talk06:38, 25 March 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete/merge selectivwly merge the important information into the Olympics page. We don't need a separate page for this. Frankly the number of "Impact of coronavirus on X" pages are getting silly.
Joseph2302 (
talk)08:02, 25 March 2020 (UTC)reply
Comment "piecemeal coverage about qualifiers in individual countries" is not true. It's not about individual countries but about the international Olympic qualification tournaments. This information should be kept together.
31.201.130.50 (
talk)
08:29, 25 March 2020 (UTC)reply
Redirect to
2020 Summer Olympics; there is just about nothing to say except that it was postponed to 2021. It would make much more sense just to discuss the qualifying tournaments in the article in which they would normally be discussed, because all the upcoming ones have been postponed. This is really an indiscriminate list.—
Naddruf (
talk ~
contribs)
21:58, 25 March 2020 (UTC)reply
There are more self-contained things that could be broken out to reduce the page size. All the tables of venues is a good candidate—that just breaks up the flow of the article.
SpinningSpark01:12, 28 March 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep: The reality of the situation is that the coronavirus epidemic will have significant and lasting flow-on effects on many aspects of society, both large and small. If there is significant widespread coverage of the smaller things being affected, then there isn't really any reason to exclude it on the basis that it's a smaller matter than much more important issues;
Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia, and we can afford to go into more minute detail on very specific topics. As an example of a similar "smaller issue" affected by the coronavirus pandemic, see
Impact of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic on the video game industry. --
benlisquareT•
C•
E07:09, 30 March 2020 (UTC)reply
WP:WikiProject Military History consists of editors who are skilled on writing articles about military history, and focus on writing articles about military history;
WP:WikiProject Video games consists of editors who are skilled on writing articles about video games, and focus on writing articles about video games;
WP:WikiProject Sports consists of editors who are skilled on writing articles about sports, and focus on writing articles about sports.
There is nothing strange about editors who specialise within niche areas to write about how a major global event has affected their specific niche interest, as long as what they're writing meets
WP:N,
WP:V,
WP:RS, and
WP:NPOV. --
benlisquareT•
C•
E17:10, 30 March 2020 (UTC)reply
Yes I understand there are specialisms. And I understand sport- I actually have a sport DYK on the front page right now. And I don't believe the article is needed, because the relevant information (the Games postponement, torch relay) can go in the main
2020 Summer Olympics article and the postponement of qualifying can go in all the appropriate qualifying articles.
Joseph2302 (
talk)18:24, 30 March 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete/merge: While it is clear that the unprecedented postponement of the Summer Olympics is worth noting, I don't see any reason for us to create another page or Wikipedia entry entirely devoted to that matter. A lot of sporting events other than the Olympics have either cancelled or postponed as well, including the qualifying rounds for most of Olympic sports. It's better to briefly include a section in the main Tokyo 2020 page about the postponement, and merge other important details (e.g. qualifying events that got cancelled) into one entry outlining the impact of Coronavirus in sports in general.
Jpbpunzalan (
talk)
14:09, 30 March 2020 (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.