Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Women's rowing

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.

The result of the debate was delete. --Ezeu 23:35, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Women's rowing

An original research article by a schoolboy Average Earthman 22:59, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

• Merge some of the statistics into Sport rowing, if verifiable and appropriate and Delete. --Fuhghettaboutit 23:13, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as stub, delete OR material. --JChap 06:51, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete in its entirety. I have been rowing for 31 years. The statistics contained in the article, for the most part, are verifiable, but not particularly meaningful. Rowing is similar to most other sports where men enjoy a physical advantage: Men are on average faster. But so what. Men and women compete in separate categories. The premise of the article, that women's rowing is inferior to men's, and that there is a "substantial difference in standards and technique" is false. (On an elite level, women's crews row at the same cadence as men's crews, and they employ the same technique. There is no fitness deficit). The article is likely a joke. At the same time the author created this article, he created a second article entitled "Assisted Drifting" which is just a redirect to "Women's Rowing." The author thereby infers that Women's Rowing = Assisted Drifting. Swlenz 22:55, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. As a coda to my entry above, most of the statistics are already available on Rowing World Records. To the extent that there is something noteworthy in the remainder of the article, it is covered by Sport rowing and by Women's sports.Swlenz 17:56, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as per reasons given by Swlenz. johnSLADE (talk) 18:18, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Swlenz. Stifle (talk) 22:10, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
• Rewrite completely unless you're willing to delete women's lacrosse and Women's football (soccer). Just because this article is crap (and it is) does not mean that a worthy article could be written about this subject. Certainly there's space for a history of women's rowing that would probably result in a content fork if it were in the main sport rowing article. OK, maybe I'm prejudiced because my wife rowed in high school and college, but abusum non tollit usum. Delete the redirect, give the creator a good spanking (note: not biting on his talk page, but keep this. Daniel Case 02:38, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
• I agree with Daniel Case that women's rowing is an important and worthy endeavor. My view is that the section on women's rowing in Sport rowing needs serious clean-up and growth, and when that gets big enough, move it to a separate site such as here. Until then this article should rest in peace, i.e. Delete. FYI There are several rowing articles with a strong women's rowing bent, namely: NCAA Rowing Championships (its all women) and Henley Women's Regatta, also College rowing (United States) is about 50/50 on men's and women's rowing. And there is a growing list of female Olympic competitors. Swlenz 03:11, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

If the section on women's rowing in sport rowing needs cleanup and growth, why wait? Be bold ... do it now and move it all here. If we delete now, even without prejudice against recreation, someone's going to say "But we already deleted this one ..." Save some admin the effort. Daniel Case 05:15, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

I see nothing mathematically wrong w the article. It's probably correct in that sense. However, if you're going to delete this article because it just isn't different enough to deserve its own article, get to work - there must be 100,000 other articles in Wiki that meet that standard.67.164.212.239 22:30, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

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.