Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chung Tat-chi (2nd nomination)

This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page, if it exists; or after the end of this archived section. The result of the debate was invalid nomination: previous VfD ended less than a day ago. --cesarb 21:04, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Chung Tat-chi

Perhaps I was not explaining enough last time. I was in HK IMO team and I saw Macau IMO team (can't remember if it was 2001 or 2002) leaving before prizing ceremony because they had to get back and prepare for the coming IOI. And I also knew that some IMO trainees in HK were in IOI training as well because of the similarity between maths and programming. This is not anything surprising for one to take part in both IMO and IOI for a city with small population like Macau and Hong Kong. And I think I should repeat myself again: the level of maths olympiad is far away from maths research, and it can't truly assess one's maths ability because maths olympiad is to solve explicitly stated problems while research is to probe into undiscovered theorems and theories. The latter often needs years of hard work, while the former only takes some hours of thinking. Therefore don't compare it with sports and don't think one will be a maths stars because of performing well in maths olympiad. I speak from my experience in maths olympiad training and in maths undergrad studies. So I ask for a delete of this article. Small potato 17:06, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Strong Delete an article on a math contest participant is no more notable or encyclopedic than an article on, say, a spelling-bee contestant. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 17:52, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

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