Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/FIDE World Chess Championships 1998-2004

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 no consensus to delete. Any redirect discussion can be taken to the appropriate talk pages. ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 00:38, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

FIDE World Chess Championships 1998-2004

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Administrative delete. I am the creator and main editor of this article, but it has now been made redundant. This page covered 5 world championships, but there are now pages for each of the individual championships at FIDE World Chess Championship 1998, FIDE World Chess Championship 1999, FIDE World Chess Championship 2000, FIDE World Chess Championship 2002 and FIDE World Chess Championship 2004. I've copied all the important text to other articles, so this should be safe to delete now. I was tempted to delete using WP:PROD, but just in case some editors think this article should stay, I'm notifying at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chess and following AfD procedure. Peter Ballard (talk) 05:50, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note — you could tag the article for G6 if it's just plain housekeeping. MuZemike (talk) 06:28, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - I agree with the nominator, the article is redundant now. Voorlandt (talk) 06:57, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect I am not too enthused about simply deleting without leaving a signpost behind, and some sort of overview of FIDE's knock-out championships is still in order even though we now have individual articles for each event. I suggest redirecting to World Chess Championship#Split title (1993 - 2006), where some overview of this championship is covered. Sjakkalle (Check!) 10:10, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Reply - I'm not sure there's any need to "leave a signpost", because I don't think there are any significant links to the article which aren't easily fixed. Apart from discussion pages etc, there are only a handful of internal wikipedia links which I haven't fixed already, and I'll change those ones soon. Externally, I can't find ANY google hits for "FIDE World Chess Championships 1998-2004" which aren't Wikipedia mirrors. I agree a general article on chess knockout tournaments is probably a good idea, though. Peter Ballard (talk) 11:46, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Voorlandt. However, the articles into which this has been split are chock full of original research. Stifle (talk) 11:51, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep in accordance with GFDL. Hiding T 13:38, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I'm not sure it should be deleted. This is the period when there were two different "championships", and this was one of them. I think it might be good to have this article to give the overall perspective, even if all of the information is in the individual articles. Bubba73 (talk), 17:48, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nominator. SyG (talk) 19:42, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Why won't the nominator tag it for speedy deletion as per his request? Alexius08 (talk) 09:09, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- There have been other non-trivial contributors. Stifle (talk) 15:35, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
KEEP IN ACCORDANCE WITH GFDL. Sorry to shout, but it seems that nobody actually noticed Hiding's comment above. If content has been copied to another article then history has to be kept. Phil Bridger (talk) 19:47, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- No, you can redirect it to the other article instead. Stifle (talk) 23:15, 11 October 2008 (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.