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 redirect‎ to Swimming at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke. Star Mississippi 02:39, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Alf Davies (swimmer)[edit]

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WP:BEFORE failed to uncover coverage in the Newspaper Archive or the British Newspaper Archive as Alf or Alfred. Happy to keep if significant, non-routine coverage can be found. As an WP:ATD, the page title should be redirected to Swimming at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke. Raised as an example at this Village pump discussion. Suriname0 (talk) 18:13, 29 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople, Sports, Olympics, and England. Suriname0 (talk) 18:13, 29 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment - Pinging User:Blue_Square_Thing, User:BeanieFan11, User:Simeon. Suriname0 (talk) 18:18, 29 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment I haven't looked into this, but if no significant, non-routine coverage can be found, then redirect to the Olympic event. I think that's better than deletion as it's reasonable to redirect Olympians that don't have an article. - Simeon (talk) 18:47, 29 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  To clarify, that's what I'm proposing in the nom. I'm not sure if there's a better venue for discussing contested redirects; RfC, maybe? But AfD has been conventionally used for this. Suriname0 (talk) 19:17, 29 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  Edit: I see there's actually a redirect for this purpose already: WP:CONRED. Looks like AfD is the appropriate venue. Suriname0 (talk) 19:20, 29 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect Can't find anything besides name in result lists. Kingsif (talk) 21:39, 29 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Given the details we have available in Olympedia it seems very likely that sources will exist, possibly in The Times or other newspapers from the time, maybe in other sources. That suggests to me that this is a clear and obvious redirect option per ATD. Blue Square Thing (talk) 08:07, 1 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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.