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The result was delete. T. Canens (talk) 22:00, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Events at the 2022 Winter Olympics[edit]

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Articles for deletion/2022 Winter Olympics events

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WP:CRYSTAL. Literally all we can actually say about these events at this point, seven years short, is "Event is a thing that will happen, the end" — with just two exceptions for, curiously, the exact same two sports, we don't even have articles in place for the individual events at the 2018 Winter Olympics yet — so I'm really struggling to think of a single remotely compelling reason why 2022's individual event subpages would already need to start existing now. Delete, without prejudice against recreation in 2021 when there's (a) actually something substantive to actually say about them, and (b) more than just the host city's own Olympics bid book (a primary source) for "referencing". Bearcat (talk) 01:44, 11 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. — JJMC89 (T·E·C) 03:01, 11 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Per nom. I saw these the other day and thought about bringing them to AfD. I think the earliest these could have any meaningful content is on the conclusion of the 2018 events, where we could mention the defending champion, and that's about it. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 06:52, 11 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - WP:TOOSOON shoy (reactions) 19:26, 13 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:TOOSOON....William 13:00, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - I disagree with your statement about 2021 because Olympic hockey is organized in such a way that most of the qualification process for the 2022 Olympic tournament will happen in 2019. Therefore the article should be recreated in 2019 at the latest. I also disagree with your statement that there are only primary sources. The election of Beijing last month has been covered by all kinds of media, including the hockey venues and schedule. I also think you should have notified the creator. Hektor (talk) 13:01, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Per nominator's rationale. We may reasonably debate whether we should keep the main articles for the next two scheduled Olympics (2016 and 2020 summer, and 2018 and 2022 winter), but the idea that we should be creating articles for the individual events at the 2022 Olympiad seven years in advance is a classic case of WP:TOOSOON and a violation of the spirit, if not the letter of WP:CRYSTAL. The hockey article can be recreated in 2019, when the qualification process begins for the 2022 Olympic hockey event (or sometime thereafter). Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 13:58, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep In August of 2012, another editor created Speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics which was nearly as premature as these articles. While this is a long lead-in for a future event, it is a notable event; it is an event that will most likely happen on schedule; and it is one that will be the subject of periodic news reports for the next several years. Meanwhile, the fact that the 2018 article was created about three years ago hasn't caused the servers to fill up, hasn't caused Wikipedia to crash, and has't hurt anything at all. Give these articles a chance to fill out -- even if they remain as stubs for the next several years, they will be expanded upon as the event nears. Etamni | ✉ | ✓ 09:12, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete this is way WP:TOOSOON. Deadman137 (talk) 18:14, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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