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 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships. Text about the cancellation can be merged from history. Sandstein 10:36, 21 July 2020 (UTC) reply

2020 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships

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My attempt to speedy redirect this to World Short Track Speed Skating Championships was challenged, so starting full AfD as suggested. This event didn't happen, and as such there is not significant coverage to pass WP:GNG. The current article sums up all that can be said about this "event": a host was chosen, it got postponed, and then it got cancelled. There is no way that this non event passes WP:GNG. Joseph 2302 ( talk) 11:26, 27 June 2020 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. Joseph 2302 ( talk) 11:26, 27 June 2020 (UTC) reply

• And in case it isn't clear, I think we should just redirect to World Short Track Speed Skating Championships. Because it's a plausible redirect. Joseph 2302 ( talk) 11:47, 27 June 2020 (UTC) reply
• Delete - This event didn't happen and does not have significant coverage. Everything in this article can be covered in a single paragraph within the World Short Track Speed Skating Championships article. Tracland ( talk) 06:14, 28 June 2020 (UTC) reply
• Neutral - I was the user who contested the speedy deletion/redirection since I felt a world championships was significant enough to warrant at least a discussion. If nobody else thinks we should keep it, I'll accept deletion/redirection as long as (part of) the text is moved to World Short Track Speed Skating Championships and the redirect is kept in Category:Sports events cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic with some dozens of other redirects (of similarly deleted/redirected pages of similarly cancelled sport competitions). - FakirNL ( talk) 06:44, 29 June 2020 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple ( talk) 15:55, 29 June 2020 (UTC) reply

• Keep Notability is not temporary, (the closest I can find is " WP:NOTBUILT", but it is essentially the same principle) and it doesn't depend on an event happening. Articles about previous annual editions of the championship often have less prose than this one. Additionally, nobody could reasonably argue that an international top level sports championship would not be notable; and because it was cancelled makes it an unusual occurrence which would be valuable information to our readers. Anyway, GNG appears to be met as there is coverage in multiple sources; eg. CBC; Strait Times; Speed Skating Canada (arguably somewhat a niche source, but they are not the organizers of the event so yes they are independent); YNA; NBC;... RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 23:16, 4 July 2020 (UTC) reply

• Keep - it needs to be expanded but it is worth keeping. It is notable enough, and has information. CupcakePerson13 ( talk) 05:40, 5 July 2020 (UTC) reply
• Comment - There are articles on 1916 Summer Olympics, 1940 Winter Olympics, 1940 Summer Olympics (and 1940 Summer Olympics torch relay), 1944 Winter Olympics and 1944 Summer Olympics -- all cancelled. (And if the 2020 Summer Olympics are ultimately cancelled, there's no way that article will be deleted.) The Olympics are, of course, far more notable than the World Short Track Speed Skating Championships. Gildir ( talk) 10:40, 5 July 2020 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of South Korea-related deletion discussions. North America ¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:53, 5 July 2020 (UTC) reply

• Keep. This is a notable event. I am sure the nominator failed to search sources in Korean and elsewhere, in regards to the cancellation. Sportsfan 1234 ( talk) 20:08, 10 July 2020 (UTC) reply
• Delete checked the articles listed by RandomCanadian, but most of them are not significant coverage and only mention the cancelled event in passing. Fails WP:NEVENT. ( t · c) buidhe 09:50, 12 July 2020 (UTC) reply

• Delete or redirect The encyclopedia probably should not be filled with cancelled events. So this is WP:TOOSOON and fails WP:NEVENT. A redirect to World Short Track Speed Skating Championships is possible per WP:CHEAP Lightburst ( talk) 23:15, 13 July 2020 (UTC) reply
• Redirect as plausible search term, I would encourage delete !votes above to consider WP:ATD as it seems like a pretty obvious case. Smartyllama ( talk) 15:55, 15 July 2020 (UTC) reply
• Delete (or merge & redirect) – no substantial non-routine coverage, so seems to clearly fail GNG & NEVENT; a classic example of TOOSOON where all verifiable content can be summarised in a single sentence. Merge & redirect could be useful to the main article where the cancellation is mentioned and could be expanded by addition of a one-liner. _wjemather ^{please leave a message...} 20:23, 15 July 2020 (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.