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The result was keep. Discussion to merge should continue at the article's talk page. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 17:09, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Freestyle Wrestling at the 1977 Summer Universiade[edit]

Freestyle Wrestling at the 1977 Summer Universiade (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View log)

Unless I missed the moment when we became a sports almanac, this entity (I hesitate to call it an "article") should go. Perhaps freestyle wrestling did occur at the 1977 Summer Universiade. Perhaps, during those halcyon days of the early Carter administration, Mr. Shells did go deep behind the Iron Curtain, surrounded by Soviets, other Eastern Bloc types (and a smattering of Mongolians, from that oft-forgotten eastern outpost of Soviet domination), a contingent of Japanese, and an Iranian competing just before the last gasps of the Pahlavi dynasty were to commence that autumn. But we are given not a hint as to why we should care. - Biruitorul ^Talk 15:38, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. Notable amateur competition and several other events from the same competition have their own articles. 68.244.159.15 (talk) 16:11, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Of the 9 articles in Category:1977 Summer Universiade, 7 of them were created by the same author within the past couple of weeks. The same editor, Leeswoo00 (talk · contribs), has been creating a lot of Universiade related articles, often containing only tables of results. Perhaps merging into the main article for each year's Universiade article would be a better approach. Astronaut (talk) 16:32, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep - for multisport competitions like the Olympics or the Commonwealth Games or the Pan American Games, the format has been to have separate result table articles for each discipline. While it would be nice to have some narrative or discussion of highlights, that should not be a requirement for having a separation of the results by discipline. Think of these as stubs for future growth. Racepacket (talk) 16:59, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. The Universiades may be sufficiently notable to have general articles about each overall competition, but I do not believe they are notable enough to warrant going into sport-by-sport detail like this. Put it this way: the 2009 Summer Universiade just ended last week. Did you see it on television? Do you remember reading any articles about it in the newspapers? --Metropolitan90 (talk) 19:28, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Neutral Comment Actually the Universade airs on Fox College Sports...which means still nobody talks about it outside of amateur circles. Nate • (chatter) 04:37, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Wrestling-related deletion discussions. -- TexasAndroid (talk) 01:24, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge it into 1977 Summer Universiade. That article is only a page long. This article has nothing to give any context to the table of results. A merge of the two (and the other individual sports from 1977) would be better in every way than the status quo. --Stormie (talk) 05:11, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge the useful encyclopaedic content, and delete the material that violates WP:DIR. GetDumb 08:45, 19 July 2009 (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.