Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/RacingThePlanet: Namibia

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 no consensus. Stifle (talk) 12:55, 11 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

RacingThePlanet: Namibia (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log • AfD statistics)

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No assertion of notability. Simon-in-sagamihara (talk) 06:54, 3 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Update: The author has himself since created an article (originally given the generic title "Endurance footrace" which included information solely on RacingThePlanet, so I moved it to RacingThePlanet) and copy-pasted the information from this one, so I am withdrawing this AfD nomination and marking the original with a Speedy Deletion tag (CSD A10). Simon-in-sagamihara (talk) 01:08, 5 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Move to the G11-deleted RacingThePlanet and make a proper general article out of it. This race has been in Namibian news [1], even in years when Namibia did not host it here (last sentence), so it doesn't seem to be entirely unremarkable. Once in the news, there's always something to be found to argue for notability I guess (This particular race saw the largest group of people from Hong Kong ever to enter Namibian soil, see first link). In its current form it is a bit spammy, particularly the pic seems to be inappropriate. --Pgallert (talk) 09:02, 3 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • I agree with the above. Not massively notable but a main article will probably meet notability with reports like this. Then this info should be merged into the main. Sillyfolkboy (talk) (edits)^{Join WikiProject Athletics!} 12:26, 3 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Move/Merge to RacingThePlanet. One article should suffice for all of its reincarnations. Racepacket (talk) 21:47, 3 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:55, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per multiple sources covering event. Between The Namibian, the Telegraph and CNN, I think it is a well-established sporting event.--TM 01:35, 5 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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