Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sports carnival

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 was keep. - Daniel.Bryant 09:17, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sports carnival

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Speedied once at Sports Carnival. A sports carnival is a carnival with sports. Here are some links promoting one. Guy (Help!) 09:02, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

• Don't know, what's wrong with this page! apparently JzG is a bit rough with other contributors! don't agree! kdliss. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kdliss (talk • contribs).
• Weak keep, or delete if not better sourced at the end of the AfD. Google News results and this link indicate this is not a carnival with sports, but actually a peculiar Australian type of event that we could justifiably have an article about. Sandstein 11:20, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
• Weak Keep per Sandstein. If the article is just going to be about surfing, though, shouldn't the name be Surf Carnival? --UsaSatsui 16:05, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Sports carnivals can comprise both swimming and athletics. Uncle G 16:38, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
    • The article should be expanded, then. The article itself (and all the sources) are about surfing. --UsaSatsui 18:49, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
• Actually, as you can see from this, a sports carnival is a specific type of event. Schools hold them, for example. What an Australian school would call a "sports carnival" a U.K. school would most likely call a "sports day". Uncle G 16:38, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
• So I propose to everybody to expand the article rather than deleting it! This is in the sense of Wikipedia! Isn't it the way, that anybody contributes in the field of his knowledge? Kdliss 00:20, 11 February 2007 (UTC).
• Re to UsaSatsui, I would propose to have the general page Sports carnival with redirection from suf carnival, swim canival, athletics carnival or others rather than creating a page for each kind. Kdliss 00:28, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. This is a reasonable start although it might be worth merging with an article on sports days. Surf carnivals are different events with potential for an article of its own. When I was in the NSW public schools system, we had an annual sports carnival featuring athletics and a swimming competition as well called a swimming carnival. Capitalistroadster 02:51, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment Same here in WA. The athletics carnival was usually in winter, as well. Orderinchaos78 08:53, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletions. -- Capitalistroadster 02:51, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep and expand, any kid who has suffered through a mandatory school sports carnival will want future generations warned. Lankiveil 04:07, 11 February 2007 (UTC).
• Strong Keep Part of every australian kids school life. This is wikipedia not usapedia DXRAW 09:12, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

• I'm not from the USA, I'm a pom. Guy (Help!) 15:44, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

• Keep Relevant and notable article topic for Australians. --Canley 11:46, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep, highly notable to those down under. Mathmo ^Talk 16:27, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. Just scrapes over the notability barrier. WMMartin 20:04, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep No real harm in it, doesn't violate any policies. On a more humorous note, and as someone who persistently came last in them despite best efforts, per Lankiveil. :) Orderinchaos78 08:52, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep per Uncle G and above, and sweep regularly for spam links. (jarbarf) 17:32, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
• Comment, the nominator might want to now withdraw their support for this AfD so this can be speedy closed by them? Surely it is very clear by now this article should be kept. Mathmo ^Talk 14:02, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep But it needs some info on netball / football / rugby (both codes) knockout days, as well as athletics days, to really meet the title of Sports carnival. Otherwise move the content to Surf lifesaving carnival.Garrie 22:53, 13 February 2007 (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.