Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2004 Summer Olympics medal count for countries ending in -stan
As I said when adding the vfd notice, one may disagree about the existence of *other* pages, but to create a page just to make some injokey point is an obnoxious abuse of Wikipedia IMAO. Aris Katsaris 18:28, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Delete, I cannot verify if Aris' mentioned the reason but I agree that this article should be deleted. Andries 18:30, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. This is silly. What next - Summer Olympics medal count for countries with an odd number of letters in their name who declared independence on a Tuesday? --Ianb 18:45, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- A bit puzzled, never heard of a Stan Union or Organization in the making, but well, unless this organization gives some evidence of the contrary, delete ;-) --Pgreenfinch 18:47, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- But Pgreenfinch, you don't think it's important that this union of -stans is almost national and therefore should be compared to the nations?
- Of course, except that I didn't find the main article describing this Stan Union, and that there is already a Stan Laurels article --Pgreenfinch 07:59, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. This is absurd. Maybe a medal count by continent or something like that would be interesting, but to count the medals of several coutries just because their names are somewhat similar is pointless. --Kevloral 19:56, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Delete, completely nonsensical, although that is usually a redeeming feature in my opinion. But in this case, no-one will ever bother to find out how many medals were won by -Stan countries. Therefore it has no place in an encyclopedia. Saint will 20:52, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- I for one would like to know. Care to try a different argument? Wile E. Heresiarch 15:16, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- I so appreciate the bitterness and sarcasm of the joke. However, as someone probably on the same side as its author on this issue I vote here, as I did on the articles that occasioned it, delete. Geogre 23:07, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- I appreciated also, only good things get imitated, happens to every serious brand. And obviously the attempts at debasing and suppressing the now imitated articles opened a pandora box for trollers. ;-)) --Pgreenfinch 07:59, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Keep. The "stan" countries are an identifiable geographical grouping. Expand the article to name the events and medalists involved (there aren't very many). Wile E. Heresiarch 15:14, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- You might have a point here, maybe it is a "macro region", if we refer to the United Nations statistical definitions, but I don't see at the moment any article describing that grouping and/or its organization. Any evidence would help. --Pgreenfinch 15:36, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- "Stan countries" has some currency as an informal term -- Googling for stan "central asia" returns many hits. This loose usage has been adopted by National Geographic -- their Feb 2002 story on Central Asia [1] opens They are a diverse lot, these seven Stans. That NG refers to Central Asian countries generically as "Stans" shows the term has made it into the mainstream. Fwiw, Wile E. Heresiarch 16:03, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Why not an article about it? I switch to neutral during the wait. --Pgreenfinch 17:31, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- You might have a point here, maybe it is a "macro region", if we refer to the United Nations statistical definitions, but I don't see at the moment any article describing that grouping and/or its organization. Any evidence would help. --Pgreenfinch 15:36, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)