Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Australian Mathematics Competition

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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 speedy keep, per Chan-Ho. – Jitse Niesen (talk) 08:29, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Australian Mathematics Competition

This competition is nn. I competed in it and for me, is less notable than my local footy team, and that isn't notable enough for WP.Mathguru 05:05, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

  • Delete I competed in this too, it may very well be noable, but delete anyway as it isn't anything useful to an encyclopædia MichaelBillington 05:09, 31 May 2006
  • Moderately strong keep Changed my mind, seems like a widespread competition, and page has content too. MichaelBillington 06:24, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment if it is notable then it is supposed to stay. It is a lot more serious stuff than most of the contents of Wikipedia. Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 05:39, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. Needs to be sourced better, but an international competition with 600,000 participants is probably notable enough. Sandstein 05:16, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Strong keep (author bias) 600,000+ participants, 25+ year history, sponsored by large corporations, is an international competition. About 1/3 of all Australian students take this competition.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 05:39, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep -- Hey, I even took part as a kid. - Longhair 05:42, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletions. -- Longhair 05:43, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep, per Blnguyen and Longhair. — TheKMantalk 05:49, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep very notable. THE KING 06:13, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. This is both verifiable and notable. A search of an Australia New Zealand news database comes up with 43 results. There are two books about this competition in the ACT public library system. According to an AAP story from Macquarie Net from 30 July 2002 "Students from across the globe are participating in the world-renowned Australian Mathematics Competition (AMC). The entrants include 376,000 Year 7 to 12 students from 2,480 Australian schools along with more than 98,000 students from 941 schools in 36 overseas countries." International competitions with half a million participants in a particular year are notable in my book. Capitalistroadster 06:24, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. Raise your hands who was forced to sit this competition as a kid! - ҉ Randwicked ҉ 07:13, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. Hand raised Spindocbob 07:21, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep--cj | talk 07:50, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
  • User:Mathguru has a history of making what can only be called bad-faith nominations (check user contribs). Also s/he seems to have a vendetta against User:Blnguyen. I recommend just speedy keeping this and all future nominations by Mathguru. --C S (Talk) 08:09, 31 May 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.