Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dragon Gymnastics

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 Delete. —Wknight94 (talk) 04:02, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dragon Gymnastics

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The article appears to be a vanity page or advertisement for the gym. The gym does not meet notability standards (they have produced two Olympians, neither of whom was prominent). Other editors have noted the promotional quality of the article. DanielEng 01:39, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

• Delete Vanity Article, created by the gym's owners. Their website even has a link to the Wikipedia article on their main page! Also extremely biased and lacking citations. The Olympians they have produced are possibly worth their own articles, but the gym they trained in is not. Pure advertisement, nothing more. Would need drastic improvement to become up to standard, but questionable notability means its probably not worth the effort. Tx17777 01:46, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete advertising.--Rudjek 20:55, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Valrith 21:22, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. --Park70 02:36, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep - It's well referenced as an Olympic Class Gymnastics organization that his produced at lesaat to prominent athletes, Terin Humphrey & Courtney McCool who both won silver Olympic medals (I don't know why the nom included "neither of whom were prominant" as a primary reason to delete). As always with articles of notable subjects that look like advertisements, that means the content should be changed, not the article deleted. --Oakshade 02:55, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Actually, it meets the criterion for speedy deletion, here: Blatant advertising. Pages which exclusively promote a company, product, group, service or person and which would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic

Almost of the "references" provided for the article are from the local newspaper in the city in which the gym is located, and the information contained therein comes from the gym itself. They're promoting a local business. The two references from other places are a) an article about another business started by the coach; b) a business journal. There's absolutely nothing that would suggest that this gym is any more notable than any other gym producting elites in America, or that it has a history of sustained Olympic excellence (for instance, like Round Lake in Russia, the Karolyi gym or Deva in Romania) that would warrant an article. DanielEng 03:32, 20 January 2007 (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.