Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Olympic Axe

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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 10:33, 5 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Olympic Axe

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I don't believe this qualifies as notable per WP:NSPORTS. Doesn't appear to be a championship or other top-level event. There is routine yearly coverage in the college papers of the two participating colleges, but no other mentions of the race in sources independent of the participants. Other appearances of "Olympic axe" online appear to refer to sports in danger of being cut from the Olympics, as in "sport X to face Olympic axe?", rather than this race. No book mentions that I can see in Google Books. Google News and Google News archive also return no results aside from "sport X to face Olympic axe" type headlines. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 19:58, 28 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:23, 28 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:23, 28 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:23, 28 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - I could find coverage in college publications only in a relatively fast google search. That, combined with what looks to be thorough research by User:PMC, and I can't see any evidence it passes WP:GNG. I would recommend a redirect, but that would get messy considering two college teams are always involved, not just one. Yvarta (talk) 21:04, 28 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as unconvincing in the needed independent notability and all information is only a few sentences. SwisterTwister talk 02:21, 30 January 2017 (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.